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Microsoft to Launch System Center 2022 during Q1 next Year

Microsoft says the new System Center 2022 will drop early next year as an alternative for the Windows Admin Center for Windows Server 2022 management.

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says it will roll out its latest version of System Center during the first quarter of 2022. The date was given this month during Microsoft's Windows Server 2022 virtual event. System Center 2022 will be the next big release, according to Prasidh Arora, a program manager for the Windows Service team.

“System Center 2022 is planned for release in quarter one of next calendar year. Key areas of focus for System Center 2022 would be around adding capabilities to support heterogeneous infrastructure. We will be adding support for 2022 and Azure Stack HCI 21H2. Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager, you can manage Azure Stack HCI clusters, and the upcoming release will also have Azure registration experience built into VMM to register Azure stack HCI clusters to Azure.”

Among the abilities of System Center 2022 is the Operations Manager directly integrating with Microsoft Teams for alerts. Furthermore, users can also set custom roles within the Operations Manager.

As for the Data Protection Manager, it will get folder-level restore capabilities for VM backups. Finally, restoring on parallel will be included for multiple virtual machines.

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Users can tap into System Center to handle more detailed Windows Server 2022 tasks. During the talk, Srividya Varanasi, a Microsoft senior program manager on the System Center team, joined in to highlight how the new version allows for more complex management needs:

“At your datacenter scale, you may want to standardize deployment production infrastructure at scale, and be able to monitor and backup multiple workloads and automate all of these processes. System Center suite helps in meeting all at-scale datacenter management requirements.”

Arora discussed System Center 2022 as a potential alternative to Microsoft's Windows Admin Center, when managing Windows Server 2022. That would free up the Admin Center to focus on “managing servers, clusters, hyperconverged infrastructure, Kubernetes, and PCs”.

“Windows Admin Center is designed to be that lightweight browser-based management tool that is an alternative to RDP MMC tools, or even Remote PowerShell.”

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Luke Jones
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Luke has been writing about all things tech for more than five years. He is following Microsoft closely to bring you the latest news about Windows, Office, Azure, Skype, HoloLens and all the rest of their products.

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