System Center Operations Manager, Configuration Manager and Essentials Licensing and Pricing

At todays event in Ronkonkoma, NY several of you asked what the licensing costs are for the various System Center products we discussed.

Below are some charts with the basic numbers, but to get more detailed information click on the links below:

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Pricing and Licensing

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Pricing and Licensing

System Center Essentials 2007 Pricing and Licensing

 

Operations Manager 2007 Pricing

Products

Prices

Features

Server License Offerings

Operations Manager Server 2007

$573 U.S.

Server license for full application, server, and client management.

Operations Manager Server 2007 with SQL Server Technology

$1,307 U.S.

Server license for full application, server, and client management. Note: SQL Server Technology included in this offering is the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition and may only be used to support Operations Manager 2007.

Operations Management License (OML)* Offerings

Enterprise OML

$426 U.S.

Monitoring, troubleshooting, audit collection, and reporting for any server workload or application, including the base operating system, system hardware, and other management agents on the system

Standard OML

$155 U.S

Monitoring, troubleshooting, audit collection, and reporting for servers, including Storage/File/Print and Networking workloads, the base operating system, system hardware, and other management agents on the system

Client OML

$32 U.S.

Monitoring, troubleshooting, audit collection, and reporting for any client application, base operating system, system hardware, and other management agents on the system

 

Configuration Manager 2007 Pricing

Products

Prices

Features

Server License Offerings

Configuration Manager Server 2007

$573 U.S.

Server license for full application, server, and client management.

Configuration Manager Server 2007 with SQL Server Technology

$1,307 U.S.

Server license for full application, server, and client management. Note: SQL Server Technology included in this offering is the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition and may only be used to support Configuration Manager 2007.

Management License (ML)* Offerings

Enterprise ML

$426 U.S.

Full application and server desired configuration management, including the proactive management of systems for configuration settings that follow an industry-leading framework for managing information in changing regulatory and business environments; software distribution; software update management; operating system deployment; advanced task sequencing; vulnerability assessment; and, software and hardware inventory for environments running server operating systems. The Enterprise Server ML may only be licensed per OSE. It is also available as a component of the System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise, which includes the rights to manage an unlimited number of OSEs per physical server.

Standard ML

$155 U.S

Basic workload desired configuration management, including the Windows Server operating system, file/print services, and networking services; software distribution; software update management; operating system deployment; advanced task sequencing; vulnerability assessment; and, software and hardware inventory for environments running server operating systems. The Standard Server ML may only be licensed per OSE. It is also available as a component of the System Center Server Management Suite Standard.

Client ML

$41 U.S.

Software distribution, software update management, OS deployment, advanced task sequencing, network access protection, vulnerability assessment, device management, software and hardware inventory, remote control, and Microsoft Windows Vista and Office upgrade assessment for environments running non-server operating systems. The standalone Client ML may be licensed either per OSE or per user, unless it is acquired through the Microsoft Core CAL Suite, in which case it is also available per device.

 

 

Essentials 2007 Pricing

Products

Prices

Features

Server License Offerings*

Essentials 2007

$2,000 U.S.

Management server license for full application, server, and client management. Includes MLs to manage 10 Windows-based server OSEs and 50 Windows-based PC OSEs.

Essentials 2007 with SQL Server Technology

$2,929 U.S.

Management server license for full application, server, and client management. Includes MLs to manage 10 Windows-based server OSEs and 50 Windows-based PC OSEs, and runtime-restricted version of SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition.

Management License (ML) Offerings

Essentials Server ML (5 MLP)

$500 U.S.

Includes MLs for management of 5 Windows-based server OSEs.

Essentials Server ML (single license)

$100 U.S.

Includes ML for management of 1 Windows-based server OSEs.

Essentials Client ML (20 MLP)

$400 U.S.

Includes MLs for management of 20 Windows-based PC OSEs.

Essentials Client ML (5 MLP)

$100 U.S.

Includes MLs for management of 5 Windows-based PC OSEs.