SCE(System Center Essentials) 2010 provides a great collection of monitors from the first time you use it. Monitors in SCE look at the performance and availibility of your servers along with other things; if there seems to be a problem, a monitor raises an alert which can be seen in the SCE management console. SCE takes that [...]
Notifications are a great way to get important alert information from SCE(System Center Essentials) wherever you happen to be. Notifications can be received by e-mail, text, or IM. You can customize notifications so that the right people get the right information in the right way. In this tutorial, I will show you how to set [...]
SCE(System Center Essentials) 2010 allows administrators to easily manage updates for computers in a production environment. During SCE installation, you can specify whether or not SCE will create a group object on your domain’s active directory domain controllers for SCE managed computers; by default, the installation wizard creates an SCE managed computers group object in active [...]
Agents allow the SCE(System Center Essentials) server to talk to all managed servers. During deployment, SCE can be set up to automatically discover computers or specific groups of computers in the domain SCE was deployed on; alternatively, SCE can be initially configured to only allow manual discovery of computers. Which ever way SCE is deployed, in [...]
Windows 2008 R2 offers some new features that improve DNS security. These new features include: DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) DNS cache locking DNS Socket Pool DNSSEC protects against forged DNS information, by using digital signatures. DNSSEC uses SSL to secure connections between DNS clients and servers. SSL encrypts the DNS query traffic between the DNS client and DNS server; it [...]
System Center Essentials is a new management solution from Microsoft geared toward midsized businesses. It offers centralized IT management for monitoring server health, gathering data, and deploying updates. System Center Essentials 2010 now offers the ability to manage virtual servers as well as physical servers from a single console. New features in Essentials 2010 include Virtual Machine [...]
