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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

Client settings


Until version 2007, ConfigMgr was not supporting different settings for different computer collections of users. All of the settings were exactly the same for all of the clients assigned to a particular ConfigMgr site. Starting from version 2012, it has become possible to create your own set of settings and assign it to a certain collection. Thanks to this solution, there is no need to keep a few ConfigMgr servers, as it was once the only option to separate the scope of settings. This provides the ability to swiftly manage servers that are on one ConfigMgr server and have configurations different from each other.

Client settings are used for the following:

  • Enabling various settings for different collections of computers or users (for instance, a different time for clients to pull policies)
  • Enabling/disabling server features for different computer or user collections (such as software updates)

Creating your own configurations is not a hard task. In ConfigMgr 1706, it is possible...