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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 4. Configuration Manager Agent Installation

Previous chapters described the fundamentals of ConfigMgr server installation and configuration. To manage endpoints in the environments, the ConfigMgr server needs to have the client installed on these computers. This chapter covers how to prepare the environment to install ConfigMgr clients.

The list of the environment prerequisites when planning to install clients is as follows:

  • Client operating systems need to meet all the prerequisites
  • An installation account or accounts in the Active Directory need to have local administrator permissions on endpoints
  • An appropriate Group Policy Object (GPO) should be configured if the plan is to deploy clients via GPO
  • Properly configured boundaries and boundary groups
  • At least one installed and working management point
  • Management points need to have at least one boundary assigned

The installation of ConfigMgr clients is not difficult. The most important factors are to understand the process and check whether...