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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

Reporting


Reporting is an important design factor when you plan to run long time period reports across hundreds of nodes. However, running such a report might be a big overhead for the machine processing the report.

The MS SQL database might be installed on the same server or on a separate machine. The separation of SQL and the ConfigMgr server might significantly improve the efficiency of both systems. It is also possible to move SQL Server Reporting Services to another SQL on a different machine. This might additionally improve the efficiency of the SQL Server and SQL Server Reporting Services.

Additionally, ConfigMgr in version 1706 introduced the possibility of using the Data Warehouse service point, which holds all long-term historical data of ConfigMgr deployment. Data is synchronized with the ConfigMgr site database and can hold up to 2 TB of data.

Note

Data Warehouse can be installed only on the top of the hierarchy, so it can be installed on the central administration or the primary site. Keep in mind that, if you wish to expand the standalone primary site, you need to remove the Data Warehouse service point role from that site. After CA is installed, you can install the role on the newly created top site.