System Center Essentials 2010 Release Candidate Available!

For those of you waiting on the edge of your seat for Microsoft's integrated virtual and physical IT management solution for midsize businesses, the Release Candidate is here!

Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2010 provides a unified IT management solution that enables you to simply and efficiently perform complex management tasks across virtual and physical servers, PCs, hardware, software and IT services from a single console.

Essentials 2010 -

• Delivers single console monitoring and management with summary information, common tasks, alerts and reports, allowing you to quickly see and manage your IT environment.
• Provides rapid provisioning, importation, management and live migration of virtual servers.
• Simplifies complex management tasks like packaging and deploying software, and configuring Microsoft and third-party updates.
• Helps quickly solve problems using integrated alerting, expert knowledge and troubleshooting for servers, PCs and IT services running in your IT environment.

Download, install and check out the Release Candidate here

David Mills

Sr. Product Manager

System Center