Summary

This first chapter of the book was intended to provide you, the reader, with a background of the various System Center products available, how the products fit into the management scheme of an organization, and what to expect in the subsequent chapters in this book.

Overall, the life cycle in an enterprise has a system operating system deployed on a system using System Center Configuration Manager that also patches and updates the system and keeps the system in a standardized configuration. The System Center Operations Manager product then monitors the system, whether a server or a client system, and proactively alerts administrators of any pending problems.

The System Center Data Protection Manager backs up server and application data ...

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