Vintela Management Extensions provides a possibility to handle Unix computer systems from inside SMS besides. [http://www.vintela.com/products/vmx/]

There use at times been ternary major iterations of SMS. A One.ten versions of a product defined a scope of control of the management server (the places) inside terms of the NT domain that was existence managed. Since a I.10 versions, that places paradigm has switched to the class action of subnets that is managed together. Since SMS 2003, a places may besides become defined when of these or even other Active Directory places.

A major difference between a Two.ten product & SMS 2003 is the introduction of the advanced client. a Advanced Client communicates by using a supplementary scalable management infrastructure (the Management Point). The Management Point (MP) potty handle as much as twenty thousand Advanced Clients.

a Advanced Client was introduced to provide a guide to the condition that the managed laptop computer may attach to a corporate network from either either either multiple different locations & should non universally download content from the equivalent place inside the enterprise (though it should universally receive policy from its have places).

Microsoft announced a next generation of the product, "Version 4" at a Microsoft Management Summit inside April, 2005 with a tentative release for 2006 or 2007. This version is to use advanced security enforcement, configuration management, and OS deployment features. These are likewise slated to include the newly project-oriented & role-depending user interface.

Versions for Windows

1994 — Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.0 1995 — Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.1 1996 — Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 1999 — Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 2003 — Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 2006/2007 - Microsoft Systems Management Server version 4