How to Achieve Enterprise-Wide Compliance with System Center Configuration Manager 2007

Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (Configuration Manager) goes a long way toward helping you achieve, maintain and prove compliance. Configuration Manager's major features can even help you maintain compliance with rules you may not have realized you were subject to.

The fact is that Configuration Manager has the perfect infrastructure for helping you manage change, configuration and system updates across all your systems, both Windows and non-Windows, as well as for enabling you to achieve, maintain and prove compliance across all of the operating systems in your environment. And it can do so in a way that respects distributed systems management teams, individual administrator requirements and much more. The key is extending Configuration Manager's capabilities to non-Windows systems through Quest Management Xtensions - Configuration Manager 2007 Edition (QMX).