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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

Operating system deployment


Deployment of operating systems is the most sophisticated feature available on the ConfigMgr server. To get all of the most useful functionalities out of that feature, one would need to know not only ConfigMgr server, but also some topics unrelated to ConfigMgr, such as:

  • The operating system installation process
  • Available possibilities of controlling the operating system installation process
  • Creation and management of operating system templates

It doesn't really matter which operating system deployment tool we are talking about, be it Windows Deployment Service, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, or ConfigMgr server--without having a knowledge base of the aforementioned topics, it would be really hard to do anything related to operating system deployment.

Only by having knowledge about the process itself is it possible to choose a tool for OS deployment. This chapter covers essential terms related to OS deployment and configuration, as well as, scenarios of OS deployment...