Fortunately Microsoft Cloud OS and the System Center suite of solutions can help manage today’s data centers and automate IT activities. FyrSoft helps customers use System Center as a central foundation to unify people, processes and technology across the enterprise to automate IT and enable the business. Learn more about our consulting service topic areas using the links below.
Using System Center solutions organizations can implement proven technology that can streamline business and support processes, centralize monitoring and auditing efforts, while automate manual tasks and common workflow. FyrSoft helps business fully utilize System Center and complementary partner solutions to implement a robust, scalable, enterprise ready solution that reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) and improves return on investment (ROI).
FyrSoft helps customers truly leverage Microsoft Desktop, Hybrid Cloud, and System Center to automate the IT infrastructure services. FyrSoft offers consulting in the following types of service areas to help your business, click a link to learn more.
Automation
Automating IT processes and manual tasks helps businesses reduce costs and improve service delivery. FyrSoft helps customers automate IT service delivery through the use of PowerShell, Microsoft Service Management Automation, and Microsoft System Center to help unify IT processes, workflow, and technologies.
FyrSoft will help you design and implement the right automation solution that’s fully integrated with your existing System Center and enterprise management tools. FyrSoft will also work with you to map out existing process and technology integrations to help institute new policies that automate existing manual processes and improve operational workflow. FyrSoft brings a strong background in delivering Service Management Automation for large scale enterprises.
Automation Technologies
- PowerShell
- Microsoft System Center
- Microsoft Service Management Automation
Automation Scenario’s
- Provisioning of applications, devices, servers, users and other IT services
- Operational tasks like monthly patching, alert response, configuration changes
- Anything you do manually that can be programmatically initiated
Compliance
Businesses today face an array of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) requirements that can be challenging to support and enforce. Often these requirements are fragmented across the enterprise, poorly implemented, and even duplicated, resulting in complexities and wasted resources that only increase costs and reduce efficiencies.
Fortunately Microsoft System Center has a suite of solutions to help manage today’s data centers and address a significant amount of IT related GRC controls out-of-box. FyrSoft helps customers use System Center as a central foundation for GRC to unify people, processes and technology across the enterprise.
Using System Center solutions organizations can implement proven technology that can streamline assessment processes, centralize auditing efforts and automate audit activities and assessment workflow. FyrSoft helps business fully utilize System Center and complementary partner solutions to implement a robust, scalable, enterprise ready solution that reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) and improves return on investment (ROI).
IT configuration management and assessment needs are supported using System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) with Desired Configuration Management (DCM).Business security monitoring and auditing needs are supported via System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) with the Audit Collection Services (ACS) and Secure Vantage Technologies security solutions.
System Center Service Manager (SCSM) enables users to effectively support change, problem, and risk management workflow for GRC.
Combined these solutions enable users to automate software deployment and patching, assess system and application configurations for non-compliance, monitor the health of the environment, and centrally collect security event logs all while simplifying the on going IT needs of the business across the infrastructure.
FyrSoft helps customers truly leverage these solutions to automate configuration assessment and implement a centralized auditing infrastructure. The FyrSoft GRC Automation services offering focuses on the following types of services to help automate auditing tasks.
- Configuration assessment baseline auditing with DCM
- Compliance based health monitoring and security alerting with SCOM
- Enterprise security event log collection with ACS
- Analytics, reporting, and dashboards with SQL Reporting Services, LiveMaps, and SharePoint
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System Center Configuration Manager
System Center Configuration Manager provides the ability to define master baselines for hardware, system variables, and applications to monitoring compliance health and track drift over time. Configuration monitoring is available in SCCM 2007 and 2012, in 2012 users have the ability to auto remediate non-compliant configurations.
FyrSoft has developed more Configuration Packs than any other vendor in the world retaining deep expertise with advance application configuration monitoring and proven design methodologies that ensure a successful project. Using the Microsoft security best practice baselines and years of custom rule development we can help implement the most robust configuration assessment solution available.
Configuration Objects and Settings
System Center Configuration Manager supports the following types of objects and settings for building configuration baselines with. Each object has several attributes which can be validated with by rules for compliance.
- File and Folders existence, size, timestamp, hash, file count, ACLs
- Group Policy enablement and setting validation
- Registry existence, values, ACLs
- Service existence, start up mode options, ACLs
- Queries for Active Directory, IIS Metabases, SQL, XPATH, and WMI
- Scripts for complex settings not covered using standard methods
Dashboards and Portals
FyrSoft has tremendous expertise in building tailored dashboards and web portals to share IT information and interconnect visibility across your organization. The System Center suite and partner solutions provide delivery of very advance analytics with rich presentation layers for end users.
Common Presentation Needs
During the design phase we map your dashboard and analytical needs to common presentation methods to ensure proper visibility into your IT data and metrics. The list below summarizes some of the common options.
- Alert and Event Views
- Performance Trending and Analysis
- SQL Server Reporting Services
- Charts, Gauges, and Graphs
- Key Performance Indicators
- SLA Metrics
- Logical Processes Diagrams
- Graphical and Maps
- Historical and Cubed Analytics
FyrSoft will work with your business to define dashboarding needs, presentation options, and build a plan to implement the right solution for you. The information below summarizes some of the dashboarding options available, please contact us to learn more.
System Center Consoles
The System Center components each provide an administration consoles that present the specific technologies information and management metrics allowing operations to work directly with the assets being managed. These are targeted at technologist supporting or reliant on the monitored technologies.
SharePoint Sites
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server team sites can be integrated with System Center to include IT dashboard widgets for operations and management. This allows users to embed targeted information into team sites as well as leverage the Visio integration.
Web Solutions
Web based presentation solutions provide the option of enabling the sharing of information without a local client application and often connecting data across multiple solutions. The System Center components usually have a web client, additionally users can build custom sites or leverage the System Center Webtop framework developed by FyrSoft.
Third Party Applications
Many third party applications and solution accelerators exist to enable an array of rich analytics and presentation capabilities. Some of the popular partner add-ons include Savision LiveMaps, Bay Dynamics IT Analytics, Silect Config Wise, and System Center Webtop.
Desktop Deployment
FyrSoft can assist your business in leveraging System Center to automate your entire client and application provisioning processes. The FyrSoft Deployment Lifecycle Automation (FDLA) accelerator for System Center Configuration Manager introduces a centralized IT provisioning portal to image, reimage, clone client machines, and manage application provisioning to streamline and automate the operational on-boarding process for new systems, client upgrades, and user migrations.
Is your business ready to migrate to Windows 7 or 8? Do you want a streamlined, automated, cost effective solution that simplifies the entire Windows client migration process? If you answered yes to either of these questions than the FDLA for Windows Clients is for you.
The FyrSoft Desktop Deployment Lifecycle Automation (FDLA) accelerator combines the capabilities of System Center, partner solutions, and professional services to enable varied levels of automation and self service capabilities for the business to simplify the adoption to the latest Windows clients while reducing the overall manual labor associated with desktop deployments and application provisioning.
Through the FDLA process customers can reduce their desktop deployment lifecycle over 50% while simultaneously automating the adoption of Windows 7, 8, or 10 which helps improve quality of service and end user satisfaction.
Application Management
Migrating to Windows 7, 8, or 10? FyrSoft can help customers migrate applications to new Operating Systems seamlessly. FyrSoft offers full application migration solutions, including: application rationalization, application compatibility testing, application packaging (virtual and thick applications), integrating application with deployment tool, and application mapping solutions. FyrSoft’s expert application migration strategy helps reduce overall application management cost to your business.
Application Rationalization
Over time, organizations acquire more software titles and end up supporting multiple versions of the same title. Migrating to a new operating system can be a good time to revisit the software titles and rationalize applications. This process allows significant cost savings by reducing number of titles supported by the IT organization and the overall license cost.
Application Compatibility Testing
The compatibility testing process helps customers test their applications compatibility with new Operating Systems. FyrSoft guides customers through this process using Microsoft’s Application Compatibility Tool Kit and third party tools.
Application Packaging
Application packaging (or repackaging) is a process of implementing organizational standards to desktop applications. This also helps integrate applications with each organization’s software delivery tool for silent automated installation without user’s intervention. FyrSoft can help customer’s package their application in traditional Windows installer packaging and virtual application packaging. FyrSoft’s solution reduces overall support cost in the long run by adopting a standard packaging methodology.
Application Integration
Fyrsoft offers expert application integration solutions with deployment tools that solve even your toughest scenarios .
Application Mapping
When migrating applications to a new operating system, it is important for IT organizations to provision users with all applications that existed on old machines. This mapping can get complicated when organizations decide to upgrade, retire, or consolidate applications as part of a migration. FyrSoft Desktop Lifecycle Automation (FDLA) can help customer’s handle application mapping in a web interface and seamlessly integrate with the deployment tool System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) for fully automated application migration.
Migrations
FyrSoft’s strong expertise in migration initiatives helps clients move from legacy technologies to the latest Microsoft solutions to help implement best-of-breed standardize solutions, reduce licensing costs, and optimize systems integration. FyrSoft can ensure a successful migration to the latest versions of Windows, Cloud, and Systems Management solutions. We offer expert migrations services including:
Windows Server 2003 End of Support is coming…Be Ready Now with a trusted partner, FyrSoft. FyrSoft’s strong expertise in migration initiatives help clients transform legacy technologies to modern Microsoft platforms. FyrSoft ensures a successful migration to the latest versions of Windows Desktops, Servers, System Center, and Cloud solutions using proven migration design and planning services, seasoned infrastructure consultants, and field hardened migration tools. For Windows Server 2003 migrations FyrSoft helps clients plan, test, and move each 2003 workload, host, and virtual machine with minimal impact to end users and business services.
- Successfully move your Windows Server 2003 infrastructure and workloads to Windows Server 2012 R2 on Hyper-V and Azure IaaS
- Jumpstart with a Migration Assessment via Microsoft SA Deployment Planning Services
- Service integration with key assessment and migrations tools
- Holistic migration approach that covers upgrades, redeploys, and workload moves
Download FyrSoft’s Windows Server 2003 Migrations Datasheet, or Contact Us to learn more and start your Windows Server 2003 Migration today!
Windows 10 is here, have you upgraded? This latest Windows release unites both desktop and mobile, enabling increased productivity, protection against modern security threats, and is managed for continuous innovation.
Planning to upgrade to Windows 10? Named Microsoft’s 2016 Windows 10 Partner of the Year, FyrSoft has rich experience designing and implementing operating system upgrade projects by providing complete automation and customizable solutions that fit your organization’s needs. See our full array of service offerings here: FyrSoft Services for Windows 10 or check out our recorded Windows 10 webinar: Demystifying Windows 10 Migrations.
We offer comprehensive Fast Track and Production Project Scenarios to ensure smooth transitions, zero down-time, and improved security and productivity :
Fast Track Scenarios
- Win10 Migration Assessment – 5 or 10 days
- Proof Of Concept and Pilot – 5, 10 or 15 days
Production Project Scenarios
- Windows 10 Upgrade Planning & Deployments
- Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure
- Application Virtualization & Packaging
- Securing Enterprise Devices & Information
- Automated Deployment & Management
Find out what everybody’s talking about. Contact Us today to start planning your move!
Whether you’re in the office or on the go, Microsoft Office 365 allows you to work anywhere, anytime, on any device, guaranteeing consistent productivity tools across devices. Why make the switch? Office 365 offers a multitude of benefits including:
- Increased simplicity
- Greater productivity
- Access from anywhere
- Robust security and reliability
- Administrative control and efficiency
FyrSoft offers new deployments and migration project scenarios to ensure a smooth transition of business productivity and communication tools while offering new cloud services to all users and devices. Ready to make the switch? Contact Us today to start planning your move!
FyrSoft consulting services consistently help customers of all sizes and across all verticals combine the power and manageability of Microsoft Windows Server® Hyper-V™ and System Center to deploy cost effective and highly automated Private Clouds. Now users can auto migrate their virtual and physical hosts from VMware to Windows Server Hyper-V dynamically. FyrSoft can help your business:
- Reduce Virtualization Costs
- Optimize Microsoft Workloads
- Improve Service Delivery
- Scale to Meet Demand
- Remove costly third party licenses
Contact Us today to learn how FyrSoft can help transform your datacenter.
Hyper-V Migration Overview
Quickly, easily, and confidently migrate from VMware to Hyper-V with automated tools and proven processes.
- Assess and Plan
- Inventory virtual machines
- Assess migration readiness
- Plan migration approach
- Backup and Prepare
- Copy & Mount VM images
- Update VM configurations
- Copy and Convert
- Copy to VMM library
- Run V2V migration
- Validate conversions
- Manage and Optimize
- Deploy System Center solutions
- Automate VM management
- Automate VM service provisioning
Licensing Benefits
The Microsoft private cloud solution costs considerably less to deploy and manage than comparable solutions from VMware or Citrix. The new Microsoft Datacenter Suite license for private clouds includes:
- Unlimited VMs per physical host
- Both Windows OS and System Center license coverage
- Fractional cost of competitors
FyrSoft has proven track record with multiple large scale enterprise migrations:
- Windows 10 for 20k+ users
- Exchange to Office 365 for 20k+ users
- AirWatch to Intune for 15k+ devices
- VMware to Hyper-V and Azure for 1000+ VMs
- Altiris to SCCM for 10k+ devices
- Application modernization and platform migrations (SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Business Apps, and more)
- Monitoring tool X to Microsoft System Center and Operations Management Suite
Jumpstart with a Migration Assessment via Microsoft Software Assurance Deployment Planning Services
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IT Service Management
Efficient and cost effective IT Service Management requires your IT services, IT processes, and ITSM tool set to be in sync and aligned with your compliance requirements. FyrSoft provides ITIL v3 certified resources with proven enterprise level experience to help propel your IT Service Management initiatives forward and ensure ongoing continual improvement.
Best Practice Process Workshops include high-level discussion on ITSM process best practices, identification of existing ITSM processes and areas for improvement, a review of how these processes are supported by your toolset, as well as alignment of customer workflows to your toolset’s best practices. Deliverables include process flow diagrams, process policies, activity descriptions, defined roles and responsibilities, performance metrics and customer-specific configuration requirements.
Deployments built around best practices are less vulnerable to scaling and performance issues. Best Practice Technical Workshops lie out the optimal foundation for a successful ITSM toolset implementation and examine potential issues some configurations might experience. These interactive sessions are tailored to customer objectives and cover implementing and maintaining applications in Azure and the Windows Hybrid Cloud.
Our recognized experts and extensive real world enterprise-class experience make FyrSoft a recognized go-to partner for the following IT Service Management topics:
- ITSM Quick Start
- ITSM Process Workshops & Readiness Assessment
- Incident Problem Change CMDB (IPCC)
- Service Catalog
- Advanced ITSM Self Service / Data Center Automation
- Managed Services
Virtualization
While virtualization is an important technological component of hybrid clouds, the key differentiator is the continued abstraction of computing resources from infrastructure and the machines (virtual or otherwise) used to deliver those resources. Only by delivering this fabric can clients achieve the benefits of virtualization– including improved agility and responsiveness, reduced TCO, and increased business alignment and focus. Most importantly, a hybrid cloud promises to exceed the cost effectiveness of a virtualized infrastructure through higher workload density and greater resource utilization.
Microsoft Hybrid Cloud
Microsoft hybrid cloud solutions are built using Microsoft Azure, Windows Server with Hyper-V, and System Center – the combination of which provides enterprise class virtualization, end-to-end service management and deep insight into applications so you can focus more attention on delivering business value. Microsoft hybrid cloud solutions are delivered through our wide ecosystem of partners and are offered as custom, pre-configured, or hosted offerings – so, no matter your unique business need; there is a Microsoft hybrid cloud solution for it.
Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you with all of your virtualization needs.
