Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 Upgrade

System Center Essentials 2007 Evaluation Edition provides a unified management solution that enables IT professionals in midsize organizations to proactively manage their IT environment with increased efficiency.
Microsoft System Center Essentials is a proactive and unified management solution that will enable IT professionals in midsize organizations to more efficiently update, secure, monitor and troubleshoot their IT environments.
Essentials 2007 provides:
- 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
Main features:
- Support for managing workgroup-joined computers
- Support for monitoring SNMPv1 network devices
- Support for using multiple auto-approval rules in update management
- Support for using a remote SQL Server 2005 instance on a computer with a different architecture (x86 or x64) than that of the computer running the Essentials 2007 management server
- Support for running the Essentials 2007 management server, console and agent on computers running Windows Server 2008 within 90 days of the release of Essentials 2007 SP1. Management packs for Windows Server 2008 and its role will be available shortly after the release of Windows Server 2008.
- Improved backup and disaster recovery guidance
- Improvements in management pack quality
- Improvements in performance, usability, and supportability
System requirements:
System Center Essentials Server Requirements
Operating System
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 or R2, Standard or Enterprise edition (with IIS 6.0 and BITS 2.0)
- Small Business Server 2003 SP 1 (with IIS 6.0 and BITS 2.0)
Hardware
- 12 GB of free disk space (20 GB to store updates locally)
- CPU is x86 or x64-based, at least 2.0 GHz
- 1 GB of RAM (2 GB recommended)
Other Prerequisites
- Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.80.1022.0 or later
- .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0
Managed Computer Requirements
Client Computers
- Windows 2000 Professional SP4
- Windows XP SP2 (x86 or x64-based)
- Windows Vista (x86 or x64-based)
- Virtual clients with above operating systems
Server Computers
- Windows 2000 Server SP4
- Windows Server 2003 SP1 or R2 (x86 or x64-based)
- Virtual servers with above operating systems
Version restrictions:
- The evaluation edition is valid for 90 days after installation