Systems Management Server provides a comprehensive solution for change and configuration management for the Microsoft platform, enabling organizations to provide relevant software and updates to users quickly and cost-effectively. SMS provides the following key capabilities:
Application Deployment
- Deliver critical business productivity applications reliably and easily to users in the right place at the right time.
Asset Management
- Reduce software costs and stay compliant by understanding the installed application base and its usage.
Security Patch Management
- Improve security of the Microsoft Windows environment through increased vulnerability awareness and reliable targeted delivery of updates.
Mobility
- Deliver enterprise management to the growing mobile workforce through industry standards independent of connection or location.
- Windows Management Services Integration
- Reduce operational costs by fully utilizing the management capabilities built into the Windows platform.
Integrating Operations and Technology
- Microsoft Solutions for Management Solution Accelerators provide a blueprint for addressing key management issues by combining people, processes, and technology to help solve specific customer scenarios. Solution Accelerators are lab-tested, customer-approved Microsoft best practices that are intended to be used by Microsoft Consulting Services or Microsoft partners to help customers achieve optimal solutions