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The beta release of the System Center 2012 IT GRC Process Pack for Service Manager is now available for download. Join the beta now.

This update provides capabilities to simplify, strengthen and manage your organization’s IT GRC programs. This beta allows you to streamline your GRC process through exception management, drive data insights through comprehensive trend reporting and stay current with the latest knowledge libraries.

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The Microsoft System Center 2012 IT GRC Process Pack for Service Manager—Beta provides end-to-end IT governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management and automation for desktop and datacenter computers.

Click here to join the System Center 2012 IT GRC Process Pack for Service Manager beta.

Click here to download System Center Service Manager 2010 SP1.

Click here to download the Microsoft IT GRC Process Management Pack SP1 for System Center Service Manager.

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Deeply integrated with Microsoft System Center Service Manager, the IT GRC Process Pack translates complex regulations and standards into authoritative control objectives and control activities for the IT organization’s compliance program. The IT GRC Process Pack beta helps customers understand and bind complex business objectives to their Microsoft infrastructure in an operationally efficient manner.

This update provides capabilities to simplify, strengthen, and manage your organization’s IT GRC programs.

Streamline your GRC process through a combination of policy enforcement and exception management. Streamline and strengthen your IT GRC compliance process through simplified exception management. With the exception management feature, you can now optimize your IT GRC process: easily define, classify, and manage noncompliance incidents, technology/service constraints, and justifiable exceptions. Simplified exception management provides for the creation, approval, and reporting of justifiable exceptions to control and assess the applicability for a given business/IT situation.

Drive data insights through comprehensive trend reporting. Drive deeper insights into your compliance health and status with comprehensive trending analysis and richer reporting. Proactively manage your IT compliance life cycle trends through multidimensional analysis across various measures, including control activities, risk factors, and exceptions, to strengthen your IT governance, risk, and compliance programs.

Stay current with the latest knowledge libraries. With the IT GRC Process Pack beta release, you can automatically check, download, and keep abreast of the latest knowledge libraries through online and offline updates. You can use this release to broaden your IT compliance scope with even more control activities for various Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, and more.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: The System Center 2012 IT GRC Process Pack for Service Manager is intended to help organizations simplify and automate IT compliance and risk management processes. The IT GRC Process Pack is designed to facilitate compliance activities conducted by your organization’s IT experts, auditors, accountants, attorneys and other compliance professionals. The software does not replace those professionals. The Process Pack includes some control objectives and authority document citations. These objectives, citations, controls and settings do not verify or guarantee fulfillment of your organization’s compliance obligations. It is the responsibility of your organization to choose the objectives, citations, controls and settings to use, modify, add or remove based on guidance from your organization’s compliance professionals. Reports and any other information provided by or generated from the software do not constitute auditing, accounting, legal or other professional advice. You must consult compliance professionals to confirm compliance with specific governance, risk and compliance authority documents.

Included in the Download

The IT GRC Process Pack includes the following components:

ITGRCProcessPack2012_Beta.exe

ITGRCProcessPack_amd642012.exe
ITGRCProcessPack_x862012.exe
Documentation
- Evaluation Guide
ITGRCProcessPack_AuthoringLibraries2012.exe
- Libraries for customization
MCALibrary.Cab
- Microsoft.ControlActivity.WS2008R2SP1.Library
- Microsoft.ControlActivity.WS2008SP2.Library
- Microsoft.ControlActivity.WS2003SP2.Library
- Microsoft.ControlActivity.Win7SP1.Library
- Microsoft.ControlActivity.WinXPSP3.Library
- Microsoft.ControlActivity.WinVistaSP2.Library

Release Notes

Related Resources

IT GRC Process Management Pack SP1 for System Center Service Manager. This tool provides end-to-end compliance management and automation for desktop and datacenter computers.
Microsoft System Center Service Manager. System Center Service Manager 2010 SP1, a new addition to the System Center suite of products, delivers an integrated platform for automating and adapting IT service management best practices to your organization’s requirements.
Security Compliance Manger. This tool incorporates extensive guidance and documentation in one centralized location, enabling organizations to access and automate their security baselines for Windows client and server operating systems—including Windows 7—and Microsoft applications.
Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance Planning Guide. This guide is designed to help organizations meet Payment Card Industry Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements.
Security Risk Management Guide. This guide helps customers plan, build, and maintain a successful security risk management program.
Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 4.0. MOF 4.0 delivers practical guidance for everyday IT practices and activities, helping users establish and implement reliable, cost-effective IT services for GRC activities.

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The Solution Accelerators team hopes you’ll download this beta offering and take advantage of the opportunity to influence its development. Please send your honest and constructive feedback to secwish@microsoft.com.
To join in the greater GRC conversation, visit the Compliance Management Forum. Ask questions of the compliance experts and collaborate with your peers on GRC-related compliance management issues.

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Click here to join the System Center 2012 IT GRC Process Pack for Service Manager beta.

Click here to download the Microsoft IT GRC Process Management Pack SP1 for System Center Service Manager.