Federal Server Core Configuration

Federal Server Core Configuration is what Microsoft referred to as a standardized server configuration designed for governments. In this regard, FSCC has been tailored to the specific needs of governmental organizations with Microsoft promising that customers will be able to build a secure and reliable server environment with advanced manageability capabilities and robustness. All the while, FSCC is set up to keep financial resource consumption low, as the software giant indicates that the configuration will result in cuts to the Total Cost of Ownership. But more importantly, when creating FSCC, Microsoft has taken into consideration the budget and resource constraints that governmental organizations have to fight constantly.

The Federal Server Core Configuration was unveiled in tandem with the Standard Desktop Core Configuration (SDCC) at Microsoft’s Seventh Annual Public Sector CIO Summit. The FSCC and SDCC have been created for the purpose of offering governmental organizations managed environments that span across both server and desktops machines, as long as they are running the Windows operating system. The new consistent, centralized server configuration and management is based in fact on the Redmond company's Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC), which has already seen successful implementations.

“FSCC can help your agency: tighten server and network security with uniform settings across the environment; bolster server reliability and performance; lower the total cost of ownership, with reduced IT support needs related to consistent configurations; and speed up technology adoption in a common and stable environment,” Microsoft stated.

Essentially, the software giant is applying a similar strategy with both FDCC and FSCC. Governments will be able to take advantage of a streamlined deployment process involving a single baseline image of Windows. Following installation, FSCC will permit customers to customize deployments via role-based settings impacting the company's server-based applications.