System Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Published: March 14, 2008

System Center Essentials 2007 Faster, Better: Service Pack 1 Now Available Service Pack 1 (SP1) is an update to System Center Essentials that provides enhancements based on customer and partner feedback. Some of the improvements include: Up to 70 percent less memory consumption, and faster UI, support for workgroup joined computers, SNMP v1 devices, improved setup, new update approvals rules, enhanced third-party update experience and support for Windows Server 2008. Evaluate System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 today Upgrade your existing System Center Essentials 2007 deployment

Product Evaluation

• What’s New in System Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1
  

  This document provides more detail about the notable changes made to System Center Essentials 2007 in Service Pack 1, which were focused on addressing specific reliability, performance, and compatibility issues, supporting and improved scenarios for setup, update approval, and others.

Getting Started

• Release Notes for System Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1
  

  These release notes address late-breaking issues and information about this release of System Center Essentials 2007 SP1.

Deployment

• System Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1 Migration Guide
  

  This guide discusses various scenarios for upgrading to System Center Essentials 2007 SP1, and also includes a brief discussion of outgrowing and migrating from Essentials to System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 in a business or corporate environment.

• System Center Essentials 2007 Service Pack 1 Operations Guide
  

  This guide covers important information to help existing customers operate System Center Essentials SP1.

Extending System Center Essentials 2007

• Management Pack Authoring Guide
  

  This new document discusses best practices and techniques for authoring operations management packs for System Center Essentials 2007.