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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

Summary


Compliance Settings are a very useful and helpful server feature, thanks to which, ConfigMgr server administrators know exactly whether all of the computers are aligned with company requirements and whether all the users got the required configurations.

All you need to do for managing is to create a collection containing certain computers or users and associate appropriate settings for the collections.

Keep in mind that a computer with the ConfigMgr client installed can be managed by the ConfigMgr server, regardless of whether it is in LAN network or\on the internet. A lot of these settings can be configured using GPO. However, GPO configuration will only be applied if the computer is in the LAN network with a connection to the domain controller. If the computer is managed by the ConfigMgr server, only a connection to the management point is needed.

Note

All of the Compliance Settings are saved in policies accessible in the management point, and there is no need to send anything to the...