Danish Ministry Saves U.S.$500,000 on Deployment, Speeds Updates by 75 Percent
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark needs increasingly effective and cost-effective ways to manage a growing technology infrastructure. Its solution: Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007. The solution is enabling the Ministry to save almost U.S.$500,000 in labor and expenses to send personnel worldwide to deploy Windows Vista®, to cut hundreds of hours off deployment time, and to speed software updates by 75 percent.
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To address these concerns, the Ministry is standardizing a variety of systems management functions—from operating system deployment to software distribution, updates, and asset intelligence, for both server computers and desktops—on Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager 2007, the successor to the Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 software that it adopted a few years ago. It’s implementing System Center Configuration Manager with the support of Microsoft Gold Certified Solution Provider Globeteam.
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“The main thing for us in IT is to get control of the network,” says Jensen. “One of the great things about System Center Configuration Manager is that it gives us that control—and it does what people thought couldn’t be done. We can easily create reports to answer questions about our infrastructure, allowing us to more effectively support the Ministry’s objectives. For example, do we want to distribute DVDs for education? We can quickly find out how many of our desktops have DVD drives, telling us whether the idea is practical.” Bjørn Lysholm Jensen, Special Advisor, IT Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark.
Managing both servers and desktops with a single tool—System Center Configuration Manager—is another big benefit, according to Jensen.
“Configuration Manger gives us unified management of our infrastructure,” he says. “We use one set of reports, one set of tools for the entire environment. It’s faster, simpler, more cost-effective. It puts all the technologies, such as Software Update Services, into a single, integrated solution, so everything we do can be handled consistently. Monthly updates will be deployed 75 percent faster, taking just one day to implement.”
