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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

Deploying software updates


After getting familiar with all the processes that occur when deploying updates and understanding them, the next step is deployment. The deployment phase has two main modes:

  • Manual: All objects that require the deployment of updates are created manually.
  • Automatic: Creating an automation, which will later be deploying updates by itself. The wizard creates Software Update Groups as well as Deployment Packages.

The manual mode in WSUS has had the ability to deploy updates in an automated way and now, so does ConfigMgr.

Deployment always consists of the same objects, regardless of the mode:

  • Software Update Groups: An object that returns updates. The software update group is assigned to a collection, which means all items assigned to it will be deployed to a collection computer. A software update group can be created using the console under Software Library\Software Updates\All Software Updates where, after adding relevant updates, they can be added to an existing software...