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The Administration pane in the Essentials console contains general System Center Essentials 2010 management information and settings. The Authoring pane displays a list of all installed and imported Management Packs and the objects defined by those management packs for Essentials 2010.

See the following topics in this section for detailed information about the operations you can perform from the Administration pane and Authoring pane.

In This Section

Essentials Administration

Provides more detail about the elements of the Administration pane in Essentials 2010 and provides step-by-step procedures for common administrative tasks.
Essentials Authoring

Provides more detail about the elements of the Authoring pane in Essentials 2010 and provides step-by-step procedures for common authoring tasks.

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