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Microsoft Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) is a systems management software product developed by Microsoft for managing large groups of computers providing remote control, patch management, software distribution, operating system deployment, and hardware and software inventory management.
It is most commonly used by recent versions of Windows Update, Microsoft Update, Windows Server Update Services, and System Center Configuration Manager to deliver software updates to clients, Microsoft's anti-virus scanner Microsoft Security Essentials (a later version of Windows Defender) to fetch signature updates, and is also used by ...
System Center Operations Manager: product’s major components. The basic idea is to place a piece of software, an agent , on the computer to be monitored. The agent watches several sources on that computer, including the Windows Event Log , for specific events or alerts generated by the applications executing on the monitored computer.
System Center Essentials (SCE) was a system management product from Microsoft targeting Windows systems for small and medium size businesses. [ 1 ] The product allows monitoring and alert resolution of server and client computers , applications, hardware, and network devices.
MDT can help build an automated installation source for deploying Windows operating systems from Windows 7, Windows 10 and Windows Server 2008 onwards, from either a single machine or a central server distribution tool, such as Windows Deployment Services (WDS) or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). [5]
Software configuration management (SCM), a.k.a. software change and configuration management (SCCM), [1] is the software engineering practice of tracking and controlling changes to a software system; part of the larger cross-disciplinary field of configuration management (CM). [2] SCM includes version control and the establishment of baselines.
In configuration management, a baseline is an agreed description of the attributes of a product, at a point in time, which serves as a basis for defining change. [1] A change is a movement from this baseline state to a next state.
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), previously known as Software Update Services (SUS), is a computer program and network service developed by Microsoft Corporation that enables administrators to manage the distribution of updates and hotfixes released for Microsoft products to computers in a corporate environment.