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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

Chapter 3. Configure Sites and Boundaries

Before ConfigMgr clients are able to perform any tasks, server roles, as well as features, need to be configured according to the project prepared. As the previous chapter covered the topic of ConfigMgr installation, this chapter covers the following topics:

  • ConfigMgr server role types
  • Installation modes on ConfigMgr server roles
  • Server roles installed and configured for ConfigMgr server
  • Installation and configuration of basic server role essentials in each ConfigMgr deployment
  • Boundary types and their role in the ConfigMgr environment
  • Boundary group types and their role in the ConfigMgr environment

This chapter should provide you with sufficient knowledge to configure the ConfigMgr server in a way that it is discoverable to clients so they can be properly managed.

There is a whole range of settings for particular ConfigMgr functions. All of them will be covered in later chapters, describing each server function. This chapter covers fundamental server configuration...