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System Center Essentials RC1 Available

System Center The System Center Essentials team is very pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate 1 software on the Microsoft Connect site. We encourage you to promptly download and start testing this exciting release of SCE! What's New in Essentials RC1?

Capabilities:
  • Support for upgrading from WSUS 2.0 and 3.0

  • Emailed Daily Health Report

  • Automatic scheduled discovery of computers from Active Directory

  • Enhanced network monitoring of SNMP-enabled network devices including a network topology diagram view

  • Remote Control support for remote control of managed client and server computers

  • Ability to import Update catalogs from third-party software publishers

  • SQL Services based reporting on monitoring, hardware and software inventory

  • Setup experience improvements for SQL Server selection and file locations

  • More management packs including support for Exchange 2003, Dynamics CRM 3.0, and Active Directory


  • Enhanced Platform support
  • non-English US locales

  • installing Essentials on x64 servers

  • managing Windows Vista

  • managing x64 systems

  • Support for managing systems in multiple domains in a single forest


  • Notes for RC1:
    There is no upgrade from Beta 2 to RC1. You must fully uninstall Beta 2 before your deploy RC1. We have documented complete UNINSTALL steps in the Scenario guide and also as an announcement on the Connect site. Be sure to read the Release Notes to avoid any known issues. Please read the Deployment Guide and Scenario document to get the most out of this release.

    System Center Essentials RC1 (Register to access the Public beta)



      
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