Foreword

To all of our customers...

Wow—it’s been almost 15 years now since the announcement was made for this new product from Microsoft: Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 1.0. The original charter was to “provide easier and more cost-effective management of desktop hardware and software throughout large-scale computing systems, easing what has been one of the most expensive and time-consuming aspects of client-server computing, and enabling customers to run their businesses more effectively.” Sound applicable today? That charter still applies, even though the characteristics and importance for those features have taken on different meanings over the past 15 years, and we are so proud of what we think System Center Configuration ...

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