Microsoft System Management Server 2003 Enterprise R2, SP3, DE CD, Win32, MVL, Education

System Management Server 2003 Enterprise R2, SP3, DE CD, Win32, MVL, Education Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 provides a comprehensive solution for addressing and resolving your change and configuration needs. SMS 2003 enables you to:
- Deliver critical business applications reliably and easily to users in the right place at the right time.
- Reduce software costs and stay compliant by understanding the installed application base and their usage.
- Improve security of the Windows environment through increased vulnerability awareness and reliable targeted delivery of updates.
- Deliver enterprise management to the growing mobile workforce through industry standards independent of connection or location.
- Reduce operational costs by fully utilizing the management capabilities built into the Windows platform.


<b>Effective and Efficient Management</b>
SMS 2003 is Microsoft Corporation's strategic solution for change and configuration management of Windows-based systems. As hardware and software assets comprise a large portion of the IT budget, corporations are becoming more focused on finding ways to reduce these costs while continuing to deliver valuable business capabilities. SMS 2003 delivers on this by reducing the overall operational costs of managing and deploying software.

<b>Simplified, Reliable Software Deployment</b>
While new applications often offer valuable business capabilities, large-scale deployment projects have become less feasible given the difficulty and cost associated with such a project—resulting in potentially placing businesses at a competitive disadvantage. By providing a comprehensive solution for planning, testing, deploying, analyzing, and optimizing software applications, SMS 2003 delivers end-to-end capabilities to help enable the seamless deployement of the latest business productivity application to every device - from server to handheld.

Understanding Software Assets
As corporations are becoming more focused on reducing costs, the ability to accurately track corporate software throughout the lifecycle and stay compliant with vendors' licensing policies has become a necessity. SMS 2003 provides an integrated way to not only know what applications are installed, but to track application usage as well. It can track which users are running applications, for how long, and how many instances concurrently. This functionality is fully integrated with the enterprise scalable inventory of SMS 2003, and will allow you to save money on potential new application purchases, stay compliant on existing products, and effectively phase out unused applications, resulting in enterprises using what is paid for and paying only for what is used.

Securing the Enterprise

Failing to implement a comprehensive security patch management strategy could have severe consequences for enterprises - critical business production systems may fail, or security-sensitive systems could be maliciously exploited - all leading to a potential loss in productivity, time, access to business applications and subsequent revenue. SMS 2003 delivers an enterprise-proven solution for managing update deployment, providing a set of tools and processes that enables quick and easy determination of Windows-based systems in need of critical updates, and the ability to test and reliably deploy these updates throughout their environment, allowing enterprises to proactively maintain the integrity of their Windows environment.

Supporting a Mobile Workforce

As corporate workforces evolve from cubicle dwellers to road warriors, this increased degree of mobility introduces additional challenges for managing PC's and devices. By using the rich manageability infrastructure in the Windows operating system, industry standard Internet technologies such as HTTP, and the technology and best practices from Windows Update—used today to implement hundreds of millions of software updates per month—SMS 2003 has extended its enterprise scalable asset management and software distribution solution to the mobile client. Software can be distributed to machines over slow link connections without interrupting the core business functions and as users move from location to location, SMS 2003 determines their physical location and enables the download of critical software from the closest source.

Windows Management Services Integration

Taking advantage of the built-in management capabilities within Windows systems, management solutions can reduce operational costs by not duplicating infrastructure and functionalities already available. By integrating with the Windows platform, and then investing in the backend technologies, such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Active Directory®, and Windows Installer Services, SMS 2003 provides an increased level of manageability for Windows-based clients.

Integrating Operations and Technology
Although SMS 2003 provides all the capabilities for change and configuration management of the Microsoft platform, without also implementing the operational processes in place to utilize these capabilites, enterprises will not be able to realize the full potential of this technology to effectively manage Windows-based servers and clients. To assist enterprises in implementing these processes and technologies effectively, Microsoft offers a series of Solutions Accelerators for SMS. Developed as part of Microsoft Solutions for Management, the Solution Accelerators provide a blueprint for addressing key management issues by combining people, process, and technology to help solve specific customer scenarios. The Solution Accelerators are integrated with Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF), management best practices based on the discipline of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). By taking an approach based on process as well as technology for solving management issues, MOF focuses on reducing unplanned system downtime caused by technology, process and people failures. The Solution Accelerators for SMS include:

- New Application Installation Solution Accelerator using SMS, delivering an end-to-end supported solution that implements best practice processes to address software deployment of a new application onto an existing Windows Operating System.

- Security Patch Management Solution Accelerator using SMS providing guidance for deploying software updates, service packs, and Quick Fix Engineering (QFE) fixes to Windows servers, SQL Server™, Exchange, and desktop clients.