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Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

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

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 (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
5
Creating Client Settings for Servers and Workstations
11
Configuration Manager Assets
13
Site Server Maintenance Tasks

Initial requirements


There are some initial requirements that need to be met in order to update deployment without an issue. The mentioned requirements need to be met on both the server side as well as on the managed endpoints side.

Server requirements

The base requirement is to use the WSUS server in version 4.0, which is available only on Windows Server 2012 or higher. The 4.0 version of WSUS works properly when it comes to updating and upgrading Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.

Note

Server WSUS (3.0), available on Windows Server 2008 R2, is not capable of working with Windows Update deployments. It will not be possible to deploy feature upgrades to new Windows 10 versions.

If this requirement cannot be met, it will not be possible to deploy all update types available on Microsoft Update.

Note

To properly deploy Windows 10 feature upgrades on WSUS installed on Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2, it is essential to install two updates: KB3095113 and KB3159706.

Another requirement is to install the...