2. Introduction to Systems
Management Server 2003
Tyler S. Farmer
Sr. Technology Specialist II
Education Solutions Group
Microsoft Corporation

3. Microsoft Management Products
Database
Servers
Desktops
Web Servers
Laptops Application Mail
Servers Servers
PDAs Web Services
Other
Servers

4. Typical Customer Cost Issues
 Management Costs
How do I keep track of what I have?
 Upgrade Costs
What can be upgraded and how?
 Help Desk Costs
How do I reduce user downtime?
 Enterprise Demands
Does it scale? Is it WAN-ready?
 Integration Costs
Does it work with my systems?
 Support Costs
How much staff do I have?

5. Top 3 Points
 Proactively managing and maintaining
desktops & servers
 Difficulty keeping up with technology
change
 Deploying quickly cost-effective
management solutions

6. Systems Management Server
Change and Configuration Management
Asset Management
 Hardware inventory
 Software installed
 Software usage
Enterprise Ready Software Distribution
 Central + regional mgmt
 Scheduled, controlled
 Standard-based access
deployments
 Scaleable architecture
 Bandwidth aware
 Status reporting
Troubleshooting
 Remote Control
 Diagnostic tools
 Network traffic monitoring

7. SMS 2003 Features
 Support corporate notebook/laptop usage
 New client w/ scalable architecture & streamlined
install
 BITS enabled content download & checkpoint
restart, Bandwidth & Modem/LAN aware
 Modem Aware / Disconnect Tolerant
 Support for Roaming, Location Aware
 Tighter integration w/ Windows
 AD Site boundaries, AD discovery
 MSI support
 Security
 Eliminate domain admin accounts
 Trusted communication (inter-site and to client)
 Signed / Encrypted content

8. SMS 2003 Features
 Infrastructure improvements
 Eliminate services on domain controllers
 Delta replication of packages
 Provide better scale-out with NLB cluster &
replicated SQL
 Improve core competencies
 Reliable software distribution (accurate
status)
 Better inventory & usage tracking
 Integrate Web Reporting, Backup/Recovery

9. SMS 2003 Production Deployments
SMS 2.0 EAP Deployments
Beta1 Beta2 RC
0 Customers 0 Customers 1 Customers
0 Clients 0 Clients 975 Clients
0 Servers 0 Servers 3 Servers
SMS 2003 EAP Deployments
Beta1 Beta2 RC
7 Customers 23 Customers +23 Customers
25k Clients 115k Clients +120k Clients
67 Servers 200 Servers +200 Servers

10. Launch
 RTM 10/15
 Launch 11/11
 Availability (now)
 Management Summit
 March 16-19, Las Vegas

11. Management Roadmap

12. Where We Are Today:
Operations Manager 2000 SP1 (MOM)
Enterprise operations management product for
Windows 2000 systems.
 Rules Based event and applications
management solution
 Self-managing: easy to use, flexible, self
deploying & scalable
 Out-of-the-Box knowledge for monitoring
 Open, extensible architecture based on
industry standards (CIM, WMI, SNMP, etc)
http://www.microsoft.com/mom/

13. Coming Soon:
Microsoft Operations Manager 2004
Enterprise operations management product for next generation
Windows Server systems.
 State monitoring & diagnostics
 Off-line reporting
 Auto-alert resolution
 Built in SQL Server Reporting Services
 Task-based UI
 Topological views
 New base management packs
 Windows 2003, IIS 6, Web Services, SQL Yukon,
UDDI, .NET Framework, etc
2004

14. MOM 2004 Screenshots

15. Coming Later:
System Center Suite
 Servers, services & database coexistence
 Cooperating consoles
 SMS deployment status forwarded as MOM alerts
 Integrated data warehouse
 Combined SMS & MOM data
 Unified reporting for servers managed by SMS and
MOM
 Integrated packaging & licensing
 Seamless migration for MOM & SMS customers
2004

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