The server infrastructure is the foundation upon which the business processes that drive an organization’s success are based. IT decision makers are asked to build this foundation while being under constant pressure to control costs, deliver infrastructure security, and ensure compliance. At the same time there is an ever present need to remain agile so as to support changing business requirements.
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner The Henson Group, Inc., provides a practice dedicated to Microsoft Systems Management technologies to help control costs, improve business agility, remain secure and in compliance, and ultimately transition to a truly dynamic infrastructure.
This practice, staffed by Microsoft Certified consultants with extensive field experience (incl. many former Microsoft employees) assists in planning to implement the next line of server products from Microsoft, yet with the directive of achieving the fastest, least disruptive way to deploy this technology across the organization.
The primary focus of this practice is Microsoft® System Center, a family of leading IT management solutions that helps IT departments proactively plan, deploy, manage, and optimize an IT environment, providing complete IT solutions for servers, desktops, and both physical and virtual devices.
The Henson Group’s Systems Management Practice also offers expertise focused on Microsoft Business Desktop Deploy technologies. (See further down for service descriptions.)
WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU: SYSTEMS CENTER CONFIGURATIONS MANAGER
Logical Deployment Planning: Primary and Secondary site configurations for optimal in-ventory collection and software deployment; architecture planning for establishing roam-ing boundaries, site-code name conventions, and security account requirements.
Physical Deployment Planning: Planning for strategically placing SMS components and distribution servers throughout a network, achieving effective software deployment and inventory collection with minimal network traffic.
Inventory Collection: Configuring hardware/software inventories to run queries against the inventory info in the database to ascertain network scope and facilitate planning.
Application and Security Patch Distribution: Global software distribution strategies for packaging of applications for multi-lingual distribution using InstallShield.
Software Metering: Enables software metering for monitoring software usage.
Custom SMS Reports: Client-specific tailoring of SMS reports.
Management and Control: THG identifies the specific Windows events that are relevant for IT administrators, and devises a detailed plan of action based on specific alerts.