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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

Chapter 8. Software Update Management

The deployment of updates is a very important process, allowing you to protect the managed environment. Administrators often use the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server to deploy patches to the operating systems and software.

Integrating the WSUS server with the ConfigMgr server significantly broadens capabilities for software and operating system patching. And if there is a need, it is possible to deploy patches not just for Microsoft software solutions using System Center Updates Publisher. The mentioned solution would allow you to publish third-party software updates on the WSUS server.

Note

When managing updates, it is not that important what software is used--whether it is WSUS, ConfigMgr, or Patch Manager. What is important is knowledge of patches and when they need to be deployed and on which workstations--this task is much harder than knowing the technology.

This chapter will mostly be concentrated on deploying patches to Windows systems...