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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

Software update features


Managing deployment using ConfigMgr provides a number of features that are not available for the WSUS server alone. Additional available features are as follows:

  • The outcome of update scanning can be used to deploy updates or used for other tasks, such as Compliance Settings
  • An easy and straightforward way to install updates only on maintenance window for each collection separately
  • Automatic deployment of updates that match the criteria set by the administrator
  • Monitoring and reporting of scanning results as well as the deployment of updates based on data from the ConfigMgr server
  • The capability to create your own reports related to update deployment
  • The capability to use Wake On LAN and power plans for deployments
  • Deployment of updates even on computers with no domain joined and working on the internet
  • Deployment of updates using Windows Update for Business
  • Publishing updates for third-party software using System Center Updates Publisher
  • Support for express installation files...