The initial configuration is not very complex when you have the knowledge.

The installation process is easy, but the configuration is quite complex. It involves setting up many components to use most of the features. It requires one engineer to work on the implementation. The time taken depends on the environment. It takes about a day to complete. Once everything is set up, it is easy to maintain.

Setting up System Center is relatively straightforward. 

The product's initial setup phase was easy.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

The solution can be deployed in a day or two.

I didn't do the initial setup myself, however, I was working for the same organization when it was set up.

During the setup, we wound up reaching out to a lot of peers for their experience and what they ran into in setting it up and getting it configured properly. We chose that route since we work in education K-12 and there's quite a community around that. We had pretty good success with that. We did not go out specifically and sign up for training for it.

That said, the documentation hasn't changed much since it was initially set up with the availability of documentation.

It took us a few weeks to set it up, configure it, make it ready to run, and verify that it was functionally performing the way we thought it should.

I wouldn't say that it's maintenance-heavy. It was largely one person doing the setup with some assistance from myself. Now we have one technician typically looking at the reports on a daily basis. They check for anything that we need to be aware of, or that comes up, and also work with our system admin for updating images if we're updating images for new Windows devices. It's not really maintenance-heavy in our instance.

The solution's initial setup depends on the intelligence and experience of the person doing it.

I rate Microsoft System Center a five out of ten for the ease of its initial setup.

The initial setup was complex. We run a large footprint in excess of 9,000 nodes, so it was complex to understand exactly what the network impact, throughput on the environment and the database sizing.

The initial set up was simple. It's based on Microsoft technology, so we didn't have any issues.

It took two months for the installation and configuration of monitoring.

We had two people for the deployment, one from our site and one external partner, but they were not full-time.

I believe that these days initial setup is relatively straightforward although it does require specialized IT engineers. If the environment was more flexible, more user friendly, it would be simple. 

The initial setup was not complex at all. It was pretty straightforward, from what I recall.

I'm not sure how long deployment took our team as I was not directly involved in the process. I'm not sure what our implementation strategy was or how it was executed.

We have about 10-15 staff members that handle deployment and maintenance.

Initial setup is very straightforward. Microsoft has excellent documentation, step-by-step documentation that clarifies the implementation procedure. The difficulty in our case was that it was not a traditional implementation for System Center. It was an implementation based on the new architecture, which is not mature enough yet to support multi-tenant environments.

It's is complex because there are a lot of divisions, and the management of the rules applied to the server are complex.

The initial setup was complex. A regular IT person cannot handle the installation. You should have a senior-level employee handle the deployment. 

It took a few days to configure and deploy. 

My own team deployed it.