The System Center Essentials team is very pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate 1 software on the Microsoft Connect site. We encourage you to promptly download and start testing this exciting release of SCE! What's New in Essentials RC1?
Capabilities:
Support for upgrading from WSUS 2.0 and 3.0
Emailed Daily Health Report
Automatic scheduled discovery of computers from Active Directory
Enhanced network monitoring of SNMP-enabled network devices including a network topology diagram view
Remote Control support for remote control of managed client and server computers
Ability to import Update catalogs from third-party software publishers
SQL Services based reporting on monitoring, hardware and software inventory
Setup experience improvements for SQL Server selection and file locations
More management packs including support for Exchange 2003, Dynamics CRM 3.0, and Active Directory
Enhanced Platform support
non-English US locales
installing Essentials on x64 servers
managing Windows Vista
managing x64 systems
Support for managing systems in multiple domains in a single forest
System Center Essentials RC1 at Connect
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