David Mills did a session on System Center Essentials 2007 today, at the Airlift. Essentials will replace the former Operations Manager 2007 Workgroup edition and is targeted at the Small Business Server (SBS) and upcoming Codename "Centro" server customers. There will be a hard support limit, supporting up to 30 servers and a maximum of 500 clients. One of the great new features is a Daily Health Report, delivered by email, telling the administrator status about update compliance, problems in their infrastructure, etcetera. Upgrades will be available from the OpsMgr 2005 full and Workgroup product and also supported from the current Windows Server Updates Services v2 and upcoming v3 products.
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