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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 settings


Apart from installing and configuring particular server roles, the administrator needs to configure a few additional settings in various places that relate to the whole environment. Places for these settings are as follows:

  • Hierarchy site settings: The place to configure settings related to hierarchy. These settings need to be configured even when the environment is contained from one primary site server.
  • Primary site settings: The place to configure settings for a single primary site server.

The settings that are about to be discussed are important, not only from the functional point of view, but they also play important role in securing the system.

Hierarchy site settings

Settings for the hierarchy are placed under the Administration\Site Configuration\Sites tab. After choosing the site, the administrator needs to choose Hierarchy Settings. The General tab is used for setting up the way clients will cooperate with management points. The Use a fallback siteoption means...