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Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 - MOM Consulting Services

Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 helps IT operations staff stay aware of issues that arise, respond to these issues quickly and accurately and demonstrate accountability to stakeholders. As a result, IT staff can reliably deliver services to support a business at all times.

With MOM 2005, IT people can identify the IT health issues before they become problems through built-in application intelligence, improve the efficiency of IT operations through actionable best practices and support IT operations and senior management through sharing of key service level and performance information.

MOM 2005 helps ensure that relevant and important information is captured, evaluated and presented to IT staff. It directly monitors the event, health and performance information of a Windows Server™ infrastructure and Windows®–based application environment, using Management Packs. The packs provide ready-to-use intelligent operations management knowledge and monitor a wide array of server health indicators that enable them to call attention—often preemptively—to critical events that require administrator intervention. This information is made available through MOM 2005’s open and scalable server infrastructure and a powerful operator console.

MOM 2005 offers a powerful monitoring solution supported by in-depth knowledge base content associated with the relevant alerts included in the Management Pack. This System Center Logosolution provides prescriptive guidance that enables anadministrator to quickly resolve outstanding alerts. The administrator can then act to prevent or correct situations such as degraded performance or service interruption while maintaining system and service availability with ease and reliability.

System and service availability are key to meeting business requirements. MOM 2005 enables the sharing of key service level and performance information through a thorough data collection and a rich and detailed reporting infrastructure.

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System Management Server (SMS) 2003: SMS Consulting, Installation and Support

SMS 2003 is Microsoft Corporation's strategic solution for change and configuration management of Windows-based systems. As hardware and software assets comprise a large portion of the IT budget, businesses are becoming more focused on finding ways to reduce these costs while continuing to deliver valuable capabilities. SMS 2003 delivers on this by reducing the overall operational costs of managing and deploying software.

Simplified, Reliable Software Deployment

By providing a comprehensive solution for planning, testing, deploying, analyzing and optimizing software applications, SMS 2003 delivers end-to-end capabilities to help enable the seamless deployment of the latest business productivity application to every device - from server to handheld.

Understanding Software Assets

SMS 2003 provides an integrated way to not only know what applications are installed, but to track application usage as well. It can track which users are running applications, for how long and how many instances concurrently. This functionality is fully integrated with the enterprise scalable inventory of SMS 2003 and will allow you to save money on potential new application purchases, stay compliant on existing products and effectively phase out unused applications, resulting in enterprises using what is paid for and paying only for what is used.

Securing the Enterprise

SMS 2003 delivers an enterprise-proven solution for managing update deployment, providing a set of tools and processes that enables quick and easy determination of Windows-based systems in need of critical updates and the ability to test and reliably deploy these updates throughout their environment, allowing enterprises to proactively maintain the integrity of their Windows environment.

Supporting a Mobile Workforce

By using the rich manageability infrastructure in the Windows operating system, industry standard Internet technologies such as HTTP and the technology and best practices from Windows Update—used today to implement hundreds of millions of software updates per month—SMS 2003 has extended its enterprise scalable asset management and software distribution solution to the mobile client. Software can be distributed to machines over slow link connections without interrupting the core business functions and as users move from location to location, SMS 2003 determines their physical location and enables the download of critical software from the closest source.

Windows Management Services Integration

SMS 2003 provides an increased level of manageability for Windows-based clients by integrating with the Windows platform and then investing in the backend technologies, such as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Active Directory® and Windows Installer Services.

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