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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

Application management features


Starting with ConfigMgr 2012, when application management was introduced, administrators could use many new features dedicated to application deployment.

Application management features include the following:

  • Requirements: Checking before the installation whether requirements were met
  • Global conditions: Checking before the installation whether the required global conditions were met
  • Detection methods: Checking whether the application has already been installed on the computer
  • Supersedence: The ability to automatically replace one application with another
  • Deployment action and purpose: The ability to install or uninstall an application, as well as set whether a particular deployment is mandatory or not
  • State-based deployment: The ability to re-install the required application if it is uninstalled by the user
  • User device affinity: Installing various types of the same application depending on the logged on user
  • Monitoring: The possibility to check the console for deployment...