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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

By : Marius Sandbu
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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

By: Marius Sandbu

Overview of this book

Microsoft Configuration Manager is both extensive and complex, and for many, it is the primary tool for Enterprise management. With each new release, Configuration Manager continually proves itself to be the ultimate solution for managing both clients and mobile devices.This book covers in detailed and easy-to-understand steps how to set up highly available Configuration Manager roles and backend services such as SQL, DNS, and AD. You will learn how to plan for high availability, what kind of roles there are, and how they scale.The book starts by examining what needs to be taken into account when planning for high availability before moving on to focus on the different roles and how they can be set up. The book will also go through different scenarios as well as various backup and recovery procedures. You will learn how to identify bottlenecks within the different components and create sample design scenarios for high availability on Configuration Manager. The book will also look at the different high availability options and how to deploy them.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary


Now we have gone through some of the most important roles used by Configuration Manager and how we can deploy them as highly available. Many of these roles can be complex in a large environment and often involve other factors that we can cover in this book. We explored how we could deploy a site database server as a clustered SQL server, how Active Directory works, and how it uses DNS to operate. We also took a look into the new features of DHCP in Windows Server 2012 and failover options, and also how we can leverage these in our environment.

In the next chapter, we will look into how we can back up and restore our Configuration Manager solution.