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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment

By : Martyn Coupland

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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment

4.8 (4)

By: Martyn Coupland

Overview of this book

If you are an experienced Configuration Manager administrator looking to advance your career or get more from your current environment, then this book is ideal for you. Prior experience of deploying and managing a Configuration Manager site would be helpful in following the examples throughout this book.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Designing Complex Hierarchies

1. Designing Complex Hierarchies

Selecting the appropriate site system server

Designing fault-tolerant hierarchies

Backup and recovery in Configuration Manager

Designing to support trusted forests

Designing to support nontrusted forests

Designing a sample hierarchy

Summary

2. Implementing Security with Certificates

2. Implementing Security with Certificates

Planning for the use of certificates

Setting up a secure communication

Configuring Configuration Manager

Deploying certificates to workgroup computers

Summary

3. Working with Inventory, Asset Intelligence, and Software Metering

3. Working with Inventory, Asset Intelligence, and Software Metering

Configuring the software and hardware inventory

Using the inventory data to your advantage

Making use of software metering

Real-world use of asset intelligence

Controlling applications with the inventory data

Summary

4. Security with Endpoint Protection

4. Security with Endpoint Protection

Configuring the endpoint protection infrastructure

Creating endpoint protection policies

Deploying endpoint protection definition updates

Deploying endpoint protection agents

Responding to threats

Controlling the Windows Firewall

Summary

5. Advanced Content Management

5. Advanced Content Management

Deploying distribution points

How to deploy cloud distribution points

Understanding the content library

Introducing network caching

Working with data deduplication

Summary

6. Application Deployment

6. Application Deployment

Introducing the application model

Deploying virtual applications

How the application model works

When to use packages

Summary

7. Deploying Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2

7. Deploying Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2

Introduction to operating system deployment

Integrating the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit

Creating custom boot images

Maintaining a driver library

Creating reference images

Using images in virtual environments

Deploying your captured images

Summary

8. Deploying Security Updates

8. Deploying Security Updates

Software updates

Designing a software update infrastructure

Monitoring software updates

A sample scenario to patch workstations

A sample scenario to patch servers

Summary

9. Advanced Reporting

9. Advanced Reporting

Report Builder

Creating custom reports

Creating custom charts

Optimizing query performance

Configuring report subscriptions

Summary

10. Preventing Configuration Drift

10. Preventing Configuration Drift

An introduction to compliance settings

Example scenarios for compliance monitoring

Summary

11. Managing Bring Your Own Device and Mobility

11. Managing Bring Your Own Device and Mobility

Deploying company resource profiles

Managing Internet-based devices

Using the Microsoft Exchange connector

Using Windows Intune

Summary

12. Advanced Troubleshooting

12. Advanced Troubleshooting

Error tracing in Configuration Manager

Using the Configuration Manager toolkit

Using the service manager utility

Real-world scenarios

Summary

Index

Index

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Using the inventory data to your advantage

By storing hardware and software inventory, you are storing a huge amount of information about the devices in your environment, which can be used for numerous purposes. Common examples of how this data is used are as follows:

Automated removal of software
License compliance for your estate
Tracking the life of the assets

Making use of the inventory you collect is important for a number of reasons: the main reason is pure administration of your estate. For the preceding reasons, the inventory allows you to control your environment.

The way companies use inventory data varies; some companies use reporting to provide data for key performance indicators, while others just use the data for internal consumption within the team for anything from client health to what files are installed on the machine.

Controlling the inventory with control files

You can prevent software inventory from being processed against a folder using a control file. Similar to the no_sms_on_drive...

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