System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 provides additional features that help customers to realize further cost savings and efficiencies when managing their client infrastructure. These include:

• Centralized power management
• Use rights for System Center Mobile Device Manager to manage Windows Mobile devices
• Scalability and performance enhancements

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 also serves as a management foundation for the upcoming Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 solution, allowing organizations to manage and protect their client infrastructure in a single interface. Requires Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 evaluation release or Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 evaluation with Configuration Manager 2007 R2.

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Upgrading Configuration Manager 2007 R3 evaluation software to full product

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  You can upgrade your server running Configuration Manager 2007 R3 evaluation software to the full product at the end of the 180-day evaluation.
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Getting Started

• What’s New in Configuration Manager 2007 R3
  

  Read about the notable changes made in Configuration Manager 2007 R3, which focus on:

  • Power management. Provides a set of tools that enable the site administrator to configure standard Windows power settings across computers. For more information, see Power Management in Configuration Manager 2007 R3.
  • Operating system deployment improvements. Provides prestaging of boot images and Windows Imaging Format (.wim) files on new computers. Prestaging enables the administrator to apply a task sequence to the device that can use the prestaged media. For more information, see About Prestaged Media for Operating System Deployment.
  • Dynamic collection evaluation. Enables you to rapidly evaluate a collection membership by adding only newly discovered resources. For more information, see About Dynamic Collection Evaluation in Configuration Manager 2007 R3.
  • Active Directory delta discovery.Performs an intermediate discovery cycle that adds only new resources to the Configuration Manager 2007 database. For more information, see About Active Directory Delta Discovery in Configuration Manager 2007 R3.
  • Simplified resource management. Enables you to search for and add resources to a specified collection. For more information, see Add Resources to Collection Properties.
  • Desired configuration management. Enables you to create a collection of compliant or noncompliant computers in desired configuration management. For more information, see How to Remediate Non-Compliant Computers Using Software Distribution.
  • Higher number of supported clients per hierarchy. Configuration Manager 2007 R3 supports up to 300,000 clients per hierarchy when it uses the default settings for all Configuration Manager 2007 features. This increase in supported clients is the result of improvements to the Active Directory synchronization and Collection Evaluation processes.

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• Supported configurations
  

  Information about supported operating systems, hardware configurations, software requirements, installation combinations, and security configurations for Configuration Manager 2007 R3.

• Release notes
  

  The release notes contain information that you must have to successfully install Configuration Manager 2007 R3, and is not in the product documentation.

Additional Resources

• Power management
  

  Power management in Configuration Manager 2007 R3 provides a set of tools and resources that you can use to manage and monitor the power consumption of computers in the enterprise.

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  Read how Microsoft IT deployed a power management solution

• Prestaged media provisioning
  

  Prestaged media support is an operating-system deployment feature in Configuration Manager 2007 R3 for an administrator to prestage bootable media and an operating system image to a hard disk before the provisioning process. Prestaged media support can reduce network traffic and reduce the time for the provisioning process.

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