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Mastering System Center Configuration Manager

By : Vangel Krstevski

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Mastering System Center Configuration Manager

4.3 (6)

By: Vangel Krstevski

Overview of this book

This book is perfect for IT administrators who are looking to enhance their skills on system and asset management. A fair understanding of the core elements and applications related to SCCM would be helpful.

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. Introduction to System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2

1. Introduction to System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2

System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 – requirements

Prerequisites for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2

Installing MS SQL Server 2012

Installing System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2

Site system server and roles

Summary

2. Assets and Compliance

2. Assets and Compliance

The benefits of centralized system management

Managing compliance

Compliance authoring

Endpoint Protection

Configuring custom client device settings for Endpoint Protection

The Endpoint Protection client

Summary

3. The Software Library

3. The Software Library

Introducing packages

Creating a package

Creating and managing applications

Creating applications

Creating deployment types

Creating detection methods

Managing applications

Package conversion

Operating System Deployment

Summary

4. Reporting in Configuration Manager

4. Reporting in Configuration Manager

SQL Server Reporting Services

Implementing SQL Server Reporting Services

Reports in the Configuration Manager console

Creating a report

Troubleshooting SSRS

Optimizing SSRS performance

System Center Data warehouse

Summary

5. Administration and Monitoring

5. Administration and Monitoring

The Configuration Manager's discovery methods

Hierarchy planning

Planning your hierarchy structure

Planning boundaries and boundary groups

Client discovery and installation methods

Role-based administration

In-console alerts

Client settings

Client policy device settings

Software deployment device settings

Using Resource Explorer

Summary

6. Cloud Integration

6. Cloud Integration

Cloud integration – prerequisites

Subscribing to Windows Intune

Adding the Windows Intune subscription to Configuration Manager

Cloud distribution points

Summary

7. Security and Backup

7. Security and Backup

Administrative users

Security roles

Preventing unauthorized administrative access

Securing the Configuration Manager infrastructure

Site and SQL Server backups

Summary

8. Troubleshooting

8. Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting network issues

Troubleshooting console issues

Troubleshooting the client installation

Troubleshooting compliance settings

Troubleshooting application deployments

Troubleshooting software updates

Troubleshooting SQL Server Reporting Services

Summary

Index

Index

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Administrative users

To give users or security groups management access to Configuration Manager, you need to create an administrative user in Configuration Manager and also specify the Windows account of the user or user's group. After this, you must assign at least one security role and one security scope for that administrative user. To create a new administrative user, follow these steps:

Open the Configuration Manager console and go to the Administration section.
Expand Security and click on Administrative Users.
Under the Home tab on the ribbon bar, in the Create group, click on Add User or Group.
Click on Browse and then select the user account or the group to be used for the administrative user.
Next, you need to associate a security role with the administrative user. Click on Add to open a list of the available security roles. You can choose between the following options:
- All securable objects that are relevant to their associated security roles: This option associates the administrative...

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