Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 Beta (v2.0)

3.7 out of 5 stars 3.7 (14 votes)

BETA (September 28, 2009)

Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008, Windows 2003/2008 / Commercial Demo / 451 downloads

Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 provides IT professionals in mid-sized organizations, a unified physical and virtual management experience. It enables you to better secure, update, monitor, and troubleshoot from a single console, so you can efficiently and proactively manage your IT environment.

Reviews

Discussions

Reviews of Microsoft System Center Essentials

  1. 4 out of 5 stars
    mjm01010101

    Reviewing 2010 2.0 (Sep 29, 2009)

    This is decent AV for home users, and a strong contender for small businesses that don't care about central management of their AV apps.

    One thing about Microsoft I can respect: If they don't give up, they do improve their software over time.

    Let's give it a year of updates and potential false positives, before giving it a 5.

  2. 1 out of 5 stars
    Ball Sacks

    Reviewing 2010 Beta (v2.0) (Sep 29, 2009)

    Microsoft WTF, 600MB you got to be kidding me. Hell I thought your service packs were bad.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    billweh

    Reviewing 2007 (May 3, 2007)

    To find out more, this is the product page:
    http://www.microsoft.com...center/sce/default.mspx

  4. 4 out of 5 stars
    voltaire

    Reviewing 2007 (May 3, 2007)

    Basing your review on the size on the download isn't exactly what I call a thorough review of the product nor is it particularly useful. So I'll give it a four as well to balance up these zealots.

    While I haven't tested this particular product yet. I have found similar products like Small Business Server very useful for their target market.

    Problem also is product releases at MS are controlled by the marketing people who don't actually have a clue about the product they are selling so that is why you see terms like "proactive and unified" So at least I'll give that to the Linux and open source gang at least the programmer who wrote the program releases it and therefore probably knows what the damm thing does.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    ghammer

    Reviewing 2007 (May 2, 2007)

    Just a rating to balance the 1s given by the insane linux tribe.

Write a Review View All Reviews

Discuss Microsoft System Center Essentials

Post a Discussion