Microsoft System Center Advisor (SCA; formerly Codename Atlanta), is a commercial

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offering from

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that helps change or assess the

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software over the

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. It is part of

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brand. System Center Advisor consists of a web service, an

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that collects data (an on-premises computer program) and a gateway (another on-premises component) that communicates with the service on behalf of the agent. The agent component needs to be installed on each server and the gateway needs to be installed in the same computer network. Once the agent, gateway and web service are properly configured, an administrator may use the web service to manage the configuration of the affected servers from any physical location that has an Internet. System Center Advisor reached

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in January 2012, having spent ten months in

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stage. It was made available in 26 countries through

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offering, although it was possible to test-drive this service for 60 days. , it is a free service that supports: *

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* Exchange Server 2010 and later * Lync Server 2010 and later * SharePoint Server 2010 and later * SQL Server 2008 and later Apart from the supported products, the System Center Advisor agent needs

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. The web service currently supports

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and later or Firefox 3.5 and later. It requires

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version 4.0 or later. System Center Advisor was renamed to Azure Operational Insights in 2014 and became the Log Analytics service as part of the Microsoft Operations Management Suite in Azure.

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* Microsoft cloud services System administration Network management {{Microsoft-stub