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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

Preparing ConfigMgr site for software updates


Preparation of the environment to manage updates deployment consists of two phases:

  • Installation and configuration of the WSUS server
  • Installation and configuration of the software update point server role

Installing WSUS

WSUS is a part of the server operating system. Its database can be installed on the SQL server or using Windows Internal Database.

Note

The WSUS server installed on Windows 2012 or higher uses 8530 and 8531 port numbers.

When installing the WSUS server, the administrator needs to point a local folder where the server will store license information for updates.

Note

There are many updates where it is necessary to get to know the license agreement. Specifying the mentioned folder is not a must; however, it is required for Windows Update Agent to also deploy these updates that require accepting of license terms. 

After the server is installed, there is a need to perform synchronization of the server with Microsoft Update. The synchronization...