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Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

By : Jacek Doktór, Paweł Jarosz
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Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

3.7 (3)
By: Jacek Doktór, Paweł Jarosz

Overview of this book

It becomes important to plan, design, and deploy configurations when administrators know that Configuration Manager interacts with a number of infrastructure components such as Active Directory Domain Services, network protocols, Windows Server services, and so on. Via real-world-world deployment scenarios, this book will help you implement a single primary site or multiples sites. You will be able to efficiently plan and deploy a multiple-site hierarchy such as central administration site. Next, you will learn various methods to plan and deploy Configuration Manager clients, secure them and make the most of new features offered through ConfigMgr 1706 like compliance, deploying updates operating systems to the endpoints. Then, this book will show you how to install, configure, and run SQL reports to extract information. Lastly, you will also learn how to create and manage users access in an ConfigMgr environment By the end of this book, you will have learned to use the built-in mechanism to back up and restore data and also design maintenance plan.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Creating Client Settings for Servers and Workstations
11
Configuration Manager Assets
13
Site Server Maintenance Tasks

ConfigMgr in Azure

As you may already know, Azure is a public cloud computing platform created by Microsoft. There are three main categories of computers that Microsoft Azure offers, and they are as follows:

  • Infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
  • Platform as a service (PaaS)
  • Software as a service (SaaS)

ConfigMgr in an IaaS model is simply a VM with the ConfigMgr application installed on it.

As for the PaaS model, there is no real scenario for ConfigMgr; however, the SaaS approach has its use case for ConfigMgr in the form of cloud-based distribution points.

ConfigMgr as a VM in Azure

As mentioned earlier, starting from the 1511 version, ConfigMgr supports deployment in Azure. Leveraging this option, we get three options:

  • ConfigMgr might be placed in Azure and manage cloud-based VMs
  • ConfigMgr might be placed in Azure but manage on-premise VMs
  • ConfigMgr might be placed in Azure only to some extent, which means only certain roles, such as distribution point, are deployed on the cloud

When it comes to the prerequisites, scaling, and sizing--the same applies to the cloud as the on-premise deployments.

To start using Azure to deploy ConfigMgr VMs, you need a subscription that is charged based on the number of virtual machines and Azure resource usage.

Cloud-based distribution points

A cloud-based distribution point is a slightly different approach. It is not a VM but a service in Azure, which is automatically scaling for the needs. It supports your internal and external (internet) clients. Similar to the preceding solutions, you need an Azure subscription.

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