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Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

By : Jacek Doktór, Paweł Jarosz
Book Image

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

Applications versus packages


Each previous ConfigMgr version had its own method of being deployed when using packages. Starting from ConfigMgr 2012, there is a new mode, applications, which is the deployment of applications based on application installation files, such as .msi.

This chapter focuses on this second mode, and thanks to it, the administrator can significantly ease daily deployment administration. However, it won't be possible to leave out packages mode completely.

The packages mode is made mainly for running installations of Windows systems. It is not always possible to run an installation using the .msi file. A lot of applications use .exe, .bat scripts, or PowerShell scripts to get installed. In these cases, there is a need to use the packages mode instead of applications.

Note

The administrator should always try to use the application mode whenever it is possible, but the packages option should always be kept in mind, as in some circumstances, it might be the best choice.