What Is System Center?
As mentioned at the start of this chapter, System Center is a family or suite of management tools from Microsoft. With the System Center 2012 release, you can no longer buy individual System Center components separately. When you buy System Center 2012, you now buy a license for the entire System Center suite. An organization can still install just a single component like System Center 2012 Configuration Manager for patching and updating systems, or just install a single component like System Center 2012 Operations Manager for monitoring. The organization just owns all of the components, so at any time, the organization can install the other components to expand manageability to include backup, virtual system management, ...
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