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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

ConfigMgr client installation


The installation of the ConfigMgr client always include three steps regardless of the chosen method:

  1. Check whether the operating system meets all the initial requirements as well as the additional software requirements.
  2. The next step is the ConfigMgr client installation. Step 1 and step 2 are completely separate tasks performed during installation.
  1. Then, we find the assigned management point, which is searched based on the information found in the Active Directory, or the information given in the installer using the SMSMP switch.

Client installation is triggered by the ccmsetup.exe or ccmsetup.msi file when using GPO.

The ccmsetup.exe file performs the first step of installation. If it completes successfully, then it runs client.msi, which performs the actual client installation.

Installation methods

The ConfigMgr server provides various client installation methods.

This book describes the most common methods, which are as follows:

  • Client push installation performed...