System Center Configuration Manager

Find here Microsoft IT's early adopter experiences, best experiences, and lessons learned from our own deployments of System Center Configuration Manager within our global enterprise. By leveraging our best practices, you can make decisions about how best to plan for, deploy, and manage Microsoft solutions in your own environment.

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System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
System Center – Configuration Manager 2007 R3
System Center – Configuration Manager 2007 R2
System Center – Configuration Manager 2007

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

• Consumerization of IT within Microsoft (Updated February 18, 2013)
• Private Cloud at Microsoft (Published July 03, 2012)
• Microsoft IT Uses System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection for Unified Security and Management (Published May 31, 2012)
• How Microsoft IT Deployed System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (Updated May 08, 2012)
• How Microsoft Supports the Consumerization of IT—an Executive Perspective (TechNet Radio published May 08, 2012)
• User-Centric Client Management with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager in Microsoft IT (Published April 20, 2012)
• System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Get Started (Published April 13, 2012)
• Microsoft CIO Talks About the Importance of Consumerization of IT (Updated February 28, 2012)
• How Microsoft Supports the Consumerization of IT—an Executive Perspective (Video published December 13, 2011)
• Patch Management at Microsoft Using System Center Configuration Manager (Published May 31, 2011)

System Center – Configuration Manager 2007 R3

• How Microsoft IT Manages a Private Cloud for Microsoft Research & Development (Published July 12, 2012)
• How Microsoft IT Manages a Private Cloud Infrastructure Using System Center (Published June 11, 2012)
• How Microsoft IT Runs Private Cloud (Published May 30, 2012)
• How Microsoft IT Planned and Architected Its Private Cloud Infrastructure (Published May 17, 2012)
• How Microsoft IT Developed a Private Cloud Infrastructure (IT Pro Webcast published October 05, 2011)
• How Microsoft IT Developed a Private Cloud Infrastructure (Technical Case Study published August 09, 2011)
• Manage, Monitor, and Report: Implementing a Power Management Strategy with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 (Updated January 31, 2011)

System Center – Configuration Manager 2007 R2

• Microsoft IT Increases Security and Streamlines Antimalware Management by Using Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (Updated January 14, 2011)
• Virtualization Cuts Capital and Operating Expenses by 75 Percent at Microsoft (Updated November 29, 2010)

System Center – Configuration Manager 2007

• Maintaining High Availability for Microsoft.com (Updated October 26, 2011)
• Deploying Windows 7 Using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and OSD (Updated August 11, 2010)
• Reducing Costs and Improving Systems Management with Hyper-V and System Center Operations Manager (Updated June 16, 2010)
• How Microsoft.com Moved to a Virtualized Infrastructure (Published June 11, 2010)
• How Microsoft IT Reduces Operating Expenses Using Virtualization (Updated May 14, 2010)
• Maturing Deployment Methodology Yields Streamlined Windows 7 Deployment (Updated October 20, 2009)
• Centralized Server Virtualization Drives IT Cost Reduction (Updated October 02, 2009)
• Securing the Microsoft Desktop Environment using Patch Management (Published February 23, 2009)
• How Microsoft IT Developed a Business Case for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (Updated December 18, 2008)
• Using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 to Extend Network Health (Updated June 06, 2008)
• Manageability Services at Microsoft (Published December 28, 2006)