Marketing description

Microsoft System Center Essentials is the management solution in the System Center family of IT systems management products specifically designed for midsized businesses. Essentials provides a unified management solution that enables IT professionals in midsize organizations to proactively manage their IT environment with increased efficiency.

Key selling points

• Proactive monitoring, troubleshooting and asset tracking to keep your IT environment secure and up-to-date
• A unified solution with a single console for managing your servers, clients, hardware, software, and IT services
• Efficient execution of complex management tasks like troubleshooting end user issues, monitoring, and server and client software deployment

Product features

• Expert knowledge
  With Essentials you get a breadth of expert knowledge for managing your important platforms, applications and workloads. This knowledge includes support and diagnostic information for things like Windows Server and Client operating systems, Active Directory, Office, Exchange, SQL, and IIS.
• Single console
  Essentials provides a single console from which you can view and manage your servers, clients, hardware, software, and IT services.
• Proactive management
  System Center Essentials enables you to proactively manage your IT environment, keeping your system up-to-date with tools that accelerate problem resolution and enable automation of system updates and data collection.
• Self-managing
  Essentials is a self-managing solution that can alert you to performance problems or when updates are required for your IT environment. Essentials automatically checks for updates available and applicable to your IT environment and provides notification and access reports on update deployment progress to help you quickly troubleshoot any update deployment issues.
• Automates system updates and data collection
  Essentials automates system updates and data collection for your IT environment, so it helps you get and stay more secure and up-to-date.