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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Samir Hammoudi, Matthew Hudson, Greg Ramsey, Brian Mason, Chuluunsuren Damdinsuren
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Samir Hammoudi, Matthew Hudson, Greg Ramsey, Brian Mason, Chuluunsuren Damdinsuren

Overview of this book

This practical cookbook is based on the 1602 current branch of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). It shows you how to administer SCCM, giving you an essential toolbox of techniques to solve real-world scenarios. Packed with over 60 task-based and instantly usable recipes, you’ll discover how design a SCCM Infrastructure, and dive into topics such as the recommended SQL configuration for SCCM and how to deploy Windows 10 with Operating System Deployment (OSD). You will learn to easily manage Windows 10 devices by deploying applications, software updates, and feature upgrades, andl be able to leverage Mobile Device Management (MDM) using SCCM and Microsoft Intune. Finally, you see how to gather the inventory of all your PC park and create reports based on it. By the end of the book, you will have learned the best practices when working with SCCM and have a handy reference guide for troubleshooting.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Patching your reference build


Patch your reference build at regular intervals. The recipe in this chapter that describes building a reference machine stresses the need to have a fully automated process if possible. A fully automated process allows you to quickly run a build and capture to update the reference build. There is another useful feature in CM that may allow you to increase the interval between running a build and capture process called Schedule Updates. This feature allows you to apply Windows updates to an offline image. Before CM12, you could perform these steps manually using DISM commands to inject patches into the .wim image. CM allows you to initiate the steps from the console, and schedule them at a time that is convenient.

Getting ready

To leverage offline updates, you must have the desired Windows updates downloaded and deployed using software updates. You don't have to target a specific collection, but CM will show only updates that can be installed offline and that are...