Summary

System Center Essentials 2007 is a network management application that is installed on the Windows EBS Management Server. The key feature of System Center Essentials is that it serves as a central administration engine from which you can manage your Windows-based computers. System Center Essentials gives you a basic hardware and software inventory of your computers. It keeps track of errors on computers and helps you fix those errors. And it enables you to centrally manage Windows Update and software package deployments across your entire network.

After you run the basic wizards to configure System Center Essentials, the most important Windows updates are automatically deployed to managed computers, though you need to perform ongoing review ...

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