Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

By : Jacek Doktór, Paweł Jarosz

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Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

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By: Jacek Doktór, Paweł Jarosz

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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.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Design Planning

System Center Configuration Manager

When planning an upgrade

ConfigMgr hierarchy planning

ConfigMgr in Azure

Planning for high availability with ConfigMgr

Reporting

Summary

Installing Configuration Manager

Configuration Manager installation process

Summary

Configure Sites and Boundaries

ConfigMgr server role types

Roles installed during server deployment

Methods of installing server roles

Fundamental optional server roles

ConfigMgr server settings

Discovery Methods

Boundary and boundary groups

Summary

Configuration Manager Agent Installation

Operating systems requirements

ConfigMgr client installation

Summary

Creating Client Settings for Servers and Workstations

Client settings

Summary

Compliance Settings

Compliance feature

Summary

Software Distributions

Applications versus packages

Software distribution server roles

Application management features

Invoking scripts on devices

Summary

Software Update Management

Software update features

Initial requirements

Preparing ConfigMgr site for software updates

The process of updates deployment

Integrating ConfigMgr server with Windows Update for Business and Windows 10

Supporting non-Microsoft Updates

Deploying software updates

Windows 10 as a service

Office 365 Client Management

Monitoring software deployment

Summary

Endpoint Protection

Understanding Endpoint Protection

Monitoring Endpoint Protection status

Summary

Operating System Deployment

Operating system deployment

Summary

Configuration Manager Assets

Data collection

Summary

Role-Based Administration and Security

Introducing role-based administration and security

Summary

Site Server Maintenance Tasks

Maintenance tasks

Summary

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Operating system deployment

Deployment of operating systems is the most sophisticated feature available on the ConfigMgr server. To get all of the most useful functionalities out of that feature, one would need to know not only ConfigMgr server, but also some topics unrelated to ConfigMgr, such as:

The operating system installation process
Available possibilities of controlling the operating system installation process
Creation and management of operating system templates

It doesn't really matter which operating system deployment tool we are talking about, be it Windows Deployment Service, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, or ConfigMgr server--without having a knowledge base of the aforementioned topics, it would be really hard to do anything related to operating system deployment.

Only by having knowledge about the process itself is it possible to choose a tool for OS deployment...