History and evolution of System Center

- [Lecturer] Why do we need System Center?…System Center is a suite of products…that we use to control computers…to do security, updates, asset inventory,…monitoring, and it's a centralized system…that we can use to manage both Windows computers…and non-Windows devices.…System Center has a long history.…Let's take a look.…It started out as SMS, or System Manager Server.…

It was deployed in NT4 in the 1990s.…The product was difficult to use…but mainly deployed applications for Microsoft…and some third parties, to control and monitor…basic computer functions.…Microsoft MOM came out in the year 2000…to incorporate Active Directory to System Management Server.…We could now use group policy and security groups…to manage computers and deploy products…like applications and operating systems…and we can also monitor computers and servers.…

By the time 2007 came out,…we had the first System Center suite.…The main product was the Configuration Manager.…Microsoft said it could deploy operating systems,…deploy software applications,…