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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

ConfigMgr server role types


Server roles used by ConfigMgr can be divided into three groups--default, mandatory, and optional roles. Default mandatory roles are ones that are deployed by the installer and cannot be uninstalled or added manually. Optional ones are the ones that the administrator installs on a chosen server system or, sometimes, client, to implement a certain functionality. Good examples of such optional features are a Software Update point and an Application Catalog.

Default roles

While installing ConfigMgr server or any of its particular roles, the default roles--mandatory for the environment--are installed. This is the list of default ConfigMgr server roles:

  • Site server: This provides fundamental functionalities for the ConfigMgr server.
  • Site system: This is the server that provides specific ConfigMgr functionalities. The role is automatically installed while installing some of the optional roles or when installing the ConfigMgr role.
  • Component system: This is the server that...