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Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

By : Jacek Doktór, Paweł Jarosz
Book Image

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

Chapter 11. Configuration Manager Assets

Previous chapters led you through the server installation and configuration process, as well as client installation and deploying of applications and updates.

All the operations that have been described in previous chapters are performed by the clients, and this happens because a computer where the ConfigMgr client resides has been assigned to a collection. All server deployments available on ConfigMgr are assigned to a collection, and the collection might contain computers, mobile devices, or user objects.

Collections are created based on data available in the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) database, and this is the topic that is going to be covered in this chapter. The chapter will explain how to gather data from the client computers and how to use this data for creating queries, collections, and reports. Not only WMI-related topics, but also some basic steps of how to use data from SQL databases for report creation, will be covered.

Specifically...