Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

Plan, design, and deploy System Center Configuration Manager 1706 like never before, regardless of how complex your infrastructure is

About This Book

• The most up-to-date resource on deploying or migrating to System Center Configuration Manager 1706 within your IT infrastructure
• Plan, design, and deploy ConfigMgr 1706 with ease, both on primary and multiple-hierarchy sites
• Master the new features of ConfigMgr 1706, including Windows 10 support

Who This Book Is For

If you are a system engineer or an administrator planning to deploy Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 1706, then this book is for you. This book will also benefit system administrators who are responsible for designing and deploying one or more System CenterConfiguration Manager 1706 sites in their new or existing systems.

What You Will Learn

• Install ConfigMgr servers and the necessary roles
• Design and scale ConfigMgr environments
• Configure and administrate essential ConfigMgr roles and features
• Create software packages using .msi and .exe files
• Deliver detailed reports with an automatic patching process
• Apply proper hardening on your deployment and secure workstations
• Deploy operating systems and updates leveraging ConfigMgr mechanisms
• Create high-availability components using the built-in mechanism for backup and recovery

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

This step-by-step guide teaches you cool ways to plan, deploy, and configure ConfigMgr 1706. This tutorial, which complements the release of ConfigMgr 1706 with a refreshing new approach and expert guidance, will teach you everything you need to know about the essentials of server.

Jacek Doktor is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. From 2008 to 2015, he held the Most Valuable Professional title in Enterprise Client Management granted by Microsoft. Apart from leading training sessions on System Center/Active Directory, he also performs IT system implementations and provides support to clients. His main scope of operation is Configuration Manager and all related technologies. He works for large Polish companies, and participates in projects led by Microsoft Poland. Apart from System Center, Jacek has enormous experience in Windows 10 deployment, migrations to Windows 10, and ConfigMgr report data usage.

Pawel Jarosz is an IT engineer with experience in various IT fields and platforms, including Microsoft Exchange and ConfigMgr. He is a Microsoft Exchange expert with experience in designing and maintaining hybrid infrastructures. Pawel is a cofounder of the Polish PowerShell User Group, and is passionate about automation, building monitoring solutions, and system integration. He runs the paweljarosz blog on WordPress, where with a good dose of humor he shares his daily IT experiences.

Pawel believes that the most stunning projects comes not from the brain, but directly from the heart.