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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

Maintenance tasks


Maintenance tasks are tasks performed automatically by the server. Some of them are configured and enabled during server installation, while others are disabled by default and might be enabled after the server is installed.

The most important task, which must always be configured, is the backup. There are a few ways to configure backup, but the one recommended, is leveraging the built-in mechanism to create a backup copy.

In general, there are always three steps that need to be done for each project:

  1. Installing the ConfigMgr server and configuring it according to the project needs.
  2. Immediately after the basic configuration is done, configuring the backup, along with the schedule of performing a backup copy.
  3. Starting the backup job and checking if the backup copy can be used to restore the server after a failure.

This ensures that:

  • The environment is properly secured against failure and unwanted administrative action
  • The backup is done correctly and can be used to restore the server...