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SCE is IT Management solution for mid size business. But if my company only has 2 servers and 15 workstations. What do I use to manage IT? Do I really have to walk around making sure updates are installing correctly? Or there is solution from Microsoft for it.

Will SCE 2010 be overkill in such setup?

MadHatter
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For updates you can use WSUS which is free as part of Windows Server. For everything else SCE is being retired and Mcirosoft are replacing it with Windows InTune. This is the new small business solution, and it's subscription based so you pay per managed client.

Matt
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SCE is pretty much exactly for a network of that size.

SCE will manage your windows updates for all your computers, report on their vital statistics (free drive space, etc), and if any of those two servers are Hyper-V servers it will manage all your virtual machines for you. It does a bunch of other things that I didn't bother using as well, like reporting on installed software, etc.

Once you graduate from SCE, you're then into the big-boys toys, with:

  • System Center Operations Manager
  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager

and so on and so forth.

So, no, SCE is not overkill for your network. It's pretty much the right size. But if all you're after is updates, then you just need WSUS and an appropriately configured group policy.