Microsoft System Center Essentials is a new management solution in the System Center family of IT systems management products. Essentials is specifically designed for IT experts working in midsize businesses who often face IT challenges similar to those of larger enterprises - troubleshooting end user problems, automating management tasks, managing multiple systems, and diagnosing and resolving IT problems.

System Center is the Microsoft family of systems management products and solutions focused on providing IT experts with the tools and knowledge to help manage their IT infrastructure. The System Center management tools and technologies help you make operations more efficient, reduce troubleshooting time, and improve your planning abilities. Historically the System Center products have been targeted at IT experts working in larger Enterprise IT environments, where specialization is the rule rather than the exception.

1. Unified Experience
Essentials provides a single solution with a single console for managing your servers, clients, hardware, software, and IT services for a more unified experience.

2. Single Solution
Essentials provides a unified solution to help optimize the experience of performing a broad set of tasks across your entire IT environment. This unified user experience simplifies the complexity inherent in using multiple IT management tools or tools specifically designed for Enterprise IT environments.

3. Unified Reporting
Unified reporting based on the SQL Server reporting engine is provided to help you easily run, review, save, print or email information about the status of your IT environment. Essentials provides you with more than 30 preconfigured reports upon installation to cover your reporting needs. These reports cover things like: asset inventory, status of your IT environment, capacity planning, program deployment, and update compliance. You can even configure Essentials to email you a comprehensive daily status report first thing in the morning.

4. Expert Knowledge
With Essentials 2007 you get a breadth of expert knowledge for managing your important platforms, applications and workloads. This knowledge includes support and diagnostic information for things like Windows Server and Client operating systems, Active Directory, Office, Exchange, SQL, and IIS.

5. Single Console
Essentials provides a single console from which you can view and manage your servers, clients, hardware, software, and IT services.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, you can free download and get a free trial.