System Center Configuration Manager 2007

The next release of the product saw a change in branding. No longer called Systems Management Server, the software was aligned into the System Center product line and renamed Configuration Manager. ConfigMgr 2007 was released in August 2007.

In this version, the Legacy Client was finally dropped, along with support for operating systems prior to Windows 2000. All the familiar feature packs released for SMS 2003 were included as part of ConfigMgr 2007, removing the requirement to layer installation after installation to get all the features.

ConfigMgr 2007 was the first version to use public key infrastructure (PKI) for securing client-to-server communications. This security mode was known as native mode ...

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