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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

Discovery Methods


All operations that clients perform are assigned to a collection. A collection is nothing but a set of objects (devices, computers, AD groups, and AD users) meeting the configured requirements. To use these objects to create a collection, the administrator first needs to create these from the console or configure the server in such a way that it will find the endpoints and save them in the database.

Note

The database of the ConfigMgr server has nothing in common with the AD database. If an object is deleted in the ConfigMgr console, it will still remain in the AD database.

After installing the server, in the console, under Assets and Compliance\Devices, only devices with a ConfigMgr server role are visible. Assets and Compliance\Users, also, won't contain any objects.

The ConfigMgr server discovers objects based on built-in methods. Related to types of Active Directory, Heartbeat Discovery and Network Discovery. Heartbeat Discovery works a bit differently to other methods because...