Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007

The next release of Systems Management Server (SMS), entitled System Center Configuration Manager 2007, is now available for download. With major investments in simplicity, configuration, deployment and security, Configuration Manager 2007 dramatically simplifies system deployment, task automation, compliance management, and policy based security management allowing for increased business agility.

The new release of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 provides the control necessary to manage change in today's dynamic IT infrastructures more effectively. It delivers robust capabilities, including comprehensive deployment and updating functionality, enhanced insight and control, and optimization for Windows with extensibility beyond. These capabilities can be used to manage servers, clients, and handheld devices, across physical, virtual, distributed, or mobile systems. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 is built on key Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Active Directory, and Windows OS tools and technologies (Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE), WIM, and XML), and leverages the knowledge-driven IT management of System Center. It helps administrators minimize thenumber of OS images to manage, more easily define and track systems compliance, and improve systems performance and security to better manage today's dynamic infrastructure.