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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

When planning an upgrade


If you plan to upgrade servers ConfigMgr 1607 to 1706, first ensure that all of the site servers the across the hierarchy run the same version of ConfigMgr. The versions supported for upgrade to 1706 are 1602, 1606, and 1610.

Along with 1706 ConfigMgr, version support for a few systems got deprecated:

  • SQL Server 2008 R2 for site database servers
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 for site system servers and most site system roles
  • Windows Server 2008 for site system servers and most site system roles
  • Windows XP Embedded as a client operating system

ConfigMgr installer automatically installs .NET 4.5.2 on each machine if it is not installed already:

  • Enrollment proxy point
  • Enrollment point
  • Management point
  • Service connection point

Note

Remember that, after installing .NET 4.5.2 and before the reboot, the server might experience some failures.

Apart from the prerequisites related to the operating system and .NET 4.5.2, other important points are as follows:

  • Remember to install all critical and security updates on the machines
  • Remember to review the status of your Software Assurance (SA) agreement because, if you plan to upgrade to/install ConfigMgr 1706, this needs to be active
  • If you plan to deploy workstations, remember to ensure that Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 10 is at least at version 1703
  • Check your hierarchy for any ongoing issues and fix them before upgrading to 1706
  • Ensure that replication between sites works without issues; to check it, you might use Replication Link Analyzer

Note

When planning an upgrade for a hierarchy containing the central administration site and the primary site, the process needs to be initiated from the top, which means the central administration needs to be upgraded first. Next up are primary sites, and last but not least, are secondary sites.