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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

Configuration Manager installation process


This chapter covers topics related to the installation of ConfigMgr in the primary site type. Firstly, it will take you through all the prerequisites that the environment must fulfill for the installation to be successful, and then it will introduce the process of server installation.

The requirements that need to be met are not especially hard to achieve either.

Here are the core steps when installing ConfigMgr:

  1. The installation of an operating system.
  2. Configuration and updating the operating system.
  3. Granting permissions for the creation of the System Management container.
  4. Granting permissions for the computer account to save configuration in the Active Directory database.
  1. The installation of the Web Server (IIS) role and additional components.
  2. The installation of Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit.
  3. The installation of the ConfigMgr 1706 server.

Basic knowledge about the installation of Windows Server 2016 or 2012 is desired for the ConfigMgr 1706 installation...