Microsoft and Systems Management
Desktop Ownership: 5yr Costs
Source: Gartner Group R-TCO-115 (2/9/96)
- 2,500 Networked PCs - 8 apps per PC - homogeneous environment
The Zero Administration Initiative for Windows (ZAW)
- Reducing TCO on the Windows Platform
- Remove complexity from desktop administration
- Improve service quality and uptime
- Simplify the end user experience
- Track and Manage Change, and Minimize costs
- ZAW includes:
- NTv4: Profiles and Policies, ZAK, SMS
- NTv5: Policy-based Management, SMS, WBEM, WMI, MMC
- ZAW means that NT5 is the best managed NOS
Systems Management Server 1.2
Systems Management Server Managing distributed systems
- Comprehensive management of networked PC’s
- Hardware & Software Inventory
- Software Distribution and Installation
- Remote performance analysis and troubleshooting
- Manages leading clients within networked environments
- NetWare, Windows NT Server, LAN Manager, LAN Server, PATHWORKS
- MS-DOS, Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, Macintosh, OS/2
- Extensible foundation
- Integrates with Enterprise Management systems
- Many value-add applications from ISVs
Distributed Operation
Systems Management Server Understands Wide Area Links
- Auto-recovery from link failure
Since SMS Version 1.2
- PCM as a Service
- Software Distribution becomes Service-based
- Distribute regardless of user login
- Headless workstations, secure workstations, etc
- NT-only
- User Context Issues?
Installation Technology
- Snapshot Facility and sophisticated Scripting Engine
- Installation
- Only accesses and expands needed files
- Minimizes client CPU and temp disk usage
- Software patching
- Multigenerational, stores only binary differences of files
SMS 1.2 Review Wins
Datamation - Product of the Year, 1997
LAN Times February 3, 1997:
"SMS shines at software distribution"
InfoWorld January 13, 1997:
"SMS weighs in … when it comes to WAN-scale deployment,
Microsoft's SMS offers the best tools of the bunch."
InformationWeek December 02, 1996:
more than simply a software distribution package on steroids"
InfoWorld November 18, 1996:
"SMS fulfill its role as an enterprise-wide solution."
Systems Management and NT5
Out-of-the-box Management in NT5
- Policy-Based Management
- Maintaining User States
- Automatic Machine Configuration
- Operating System Controlled Application Installation
- Easier Centralized Administration
- Microsoft Management Console
- Better Instrumentation
- Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
Microsoft Management Console A Single Point for Management
- MMC is the host for all NT5 management tools
- All Administrative Tools run under MMC
- SMS and other BackOffice management tools run under MMC
- Third-party tools run under MMC
- MMC Makes Management Easy
- Task-oriented, not tool-oriented
- Easy creation and delegation of tool-sets
ZAW and SMS
Advanced S/W Distribution
Advanced Management Services
2: SMS provides management for non-NT5 environments
1: Policy-based Management for 32-bit desktops on NT Server 5.0
3: SMS extends out-of-the-box management functionality
Management Instrumentation
The Management Challenge
No integration of management across technologies
Web-Based Enterprise Management A Single Management Data Model
- Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) allows for the sharing of management data
- Systems, Network, Applications can exchange info
- Instrumented in NT5 and Memphis
- Uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
- Supported by the Desktop Management Task Force as the Common Information Model (CIM)
- Wide Industry Adoption (Intel, HP, CA, Tivoli, etc)
- Fully utilized by SMS
WBEM Enables Enterprise Mgmt
Unified view of the managed environment without proprietary frameworks or management interfaces
A Management Vision
A Management Vision
A Management Vision
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