Hello, we are looking to purchase Server Management Suites,and have also reviewed System Center Essentials. i dint find a lot of differences between the both , can you please tell me what makes essentials so expensive when compared with Management Suite??? also please tell me how the following work on management suite, Updates (from 3rd party as well) deploying patches and apps(example: we r looking to update all our clients with office 2007 ,currently they run office 03 ...) Reprting the admin, troubleshooting probs and knowledge base!! filters/management packs!! compatibility with non-windows stuff can it manage netwrk printers router/switches,and network diagrams?? Scalability?? also how do the above differ from Sys centr essentials??

Hello epinapala,System Center Essentials 2007 is a management solution designed for a medium-sized organization.It can only manageup to 30 servers and 500 clients. You can consider it as a simplified SCOM Server + WSUS Server.However, the System Center server management suites is more complicated, which includes some different components: System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 If you would like to usethe full-range of server management functionality on the Windows platform delivered by the System Center products, the System Center server management suiteis the bestchoice. For more details, you can visit the following websites:System Center Operations Manager http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/default.aspx System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scvmm/default.aspx System Center Configuration Manager 2007 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/configmgr/default.aspx System Center Data Protection Manager http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dpm/default.aspxThanks,Yog Li - MSFT

thax alot for the reply