microsoft Systems Management Services (SMS)
San Jose, Bay Area IT Consulting Services:
InfinIT Consulting utilizes their extensive business experience to implement Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) to allow businesses to promptly provide important software and updates to their computers from both Microsoft and non-Microsoft products. All the while minimizing cost by limiting the amount of desktop contact from the current IT staff.
As corporations grow the need for comprehensive solutions to manage IT changes and configurations becomes forefront to maintaining a healthy business infrastructure.
SMS builds on previously established versions by providing the following tools to allow for business continuity:
Inventory Tool for Custom Updates (ITCU)
Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) utilizes an integrated scanner to quickly assess client computers for software versions and establish predefined update conformity.
ISV or line-of-business (LOB) application developers are able to easily create software update catalogs for implementation into SMS to create automatic remediation plans.
InfinIT can create a custom strategy with your vendors and internal LOB application developers to utilize the ITCU to allow for greater security and reliability while minimizing operational costs
Application Deployment
- Ease your business application deployment process by obtaining the target groups hardware base, installed software applications, version information, as well as any service packs and hotfixes with the available detailed reports in SMS.
- SMS utilizes your current business Active Directory to target software distribution or management tasks by a variety of filters including organizational units, group memberships, network configuration, hardware setup, as well as current software installation status.
- Deployed applications can easily be published to the Add or Remove Programs interface to provide users with a consistent way to uninstall or change them.
Security Patch Management
Increased security threats solidify the need for continual vulnerability assessment. With the integrated security tools of SMS, the security benefits include:
- SMS enables your IT staff to inventory business systems for applicable patches and check for security weaknesses.
- SMS’s included patch deployment wizard provides a straightforward console to aid administrators patch their managed devices.
- Increased compliance regulations require businesses to define possible security violations and provide remediation plans. These businesses can now utilize the included vulnerability assessment and mitigation reporting engine in SMS to establish a central database for archived reporting.
Scan Tool for Vulnerability Assessment (STVA)
When software applications or updates are installed incorrectly, support costs increase dramatically and configuration errors can compromise security and stability.
The STVA prevents errors by using the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) to reveal common software installation mistakes and report on preventative measures increasing organizational uptime and establish a baseline for a secure infrastructure.
Asset Management Reporting
- Generate detailed reports revealing usage metrics including which applications are commonly used by employees and how long they were used. SMS can track application usage by user or computer on managed systems as well as pull reports on concurrent usage data.
- Easily provide asset discovery by allowing SMS to search system software inventory to the level you need as well as acquire detailed hardware inventory including BIOS and chassis enclosure data.
- SMS provides 120 pre-built reports covering system health, software deployment progress, as well as inventory data including both hardware and software.
Mobility Solutions
As the nature of business creates greater need for a mobile workforce update management can become a nightmarish ordeal. SMS includes location awareness to allow mobile users to move through corporate locations and receive update packages from the local appropriate installation source.
- Mobile clients will use the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) to identify current network accessible bandwidth and dynamically adjust their transfer rates for efficient downloads.
- Checkpoint/restart technology allows for mobile computers downloading updates to restart transmissions where they left off in the event of a disconnected session.
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