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Learn System Center Configuration Manager in a Month of Lunches / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 1617291684
- ISBN-13:
- 9781617291685
- Pub. Date:
- 07/19/2016
- Publisher:
- Manning
Learn System Center Configuration Manager in a Month of Lunches / Edition 1
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Learn System Center Configuration Manager in a Month of Lunches is a super-practical guide to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. In this book, you'll cut to the chase and learn the administrative procedures and techniques that will keep your systems humming smoothly.
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About the Technology
Businesses rely on a complex patchwork of client computers, physical and virtual servers, middleware, mobile devices, and cloud services. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) sits in the middle of this mix, providing a single administrative control center to deploy and manage Windows servers and applications across your entire infrastructure, including cross-platform management of Mac OS X, Linux, and UNIX. To get up to speed with the day-to-day tasks of managing a system with ConfigMgr, all you need is this book—and a quiet place to eat your lunch.
About the Book
Learn System Center Configuration Manager in a Month of Lunches is a super-practical guide to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. In this book, you’ll cut to the chase and learn the administrative procedures and techniques that will keep your systems humming smoothly. Whether you’re a new sysadmin or you already understand the inner workings of Active Directory and Windows Server, you’ll be productive immediately as you work through the 22 self-contained lessons in this handy tutorial.
What's Inside
- Covers the latest build of Configuration Manager
- How to simplify updates, operating system deployment, and reporting
- Cross-platform and mobile management including Linux, OS X, and Windows
- Smart application delivery
About the Reader
No prior experience with System Center Configuration Manager needed.
About the Author
James Bannan is a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP based in Australia.
Table of Contents
- Before you begin
- Setting up your lab environment
- Making ConfigMgr aware of your environment
- Managing ConfigMgr devices and users
- Organizing devices and users
- Configuring ConfigMgr clients
- Creating and configuring applications with the AppModel
- Deploying applications and packages to ConfigMgr clients
- Ensuring that ConfigMgr clients can access content
- Keeping ConfigMgr clients patched
- Preparing to deploy Windows
- Deploying Windows
- Advanced deployment of Windows with ConfigMgr and MDT
- Managing Linux clients
- Deploying to Linux and Mac clients
- Managing anti-malware with ConfigMgr
- Making sure clients are healthy
- Reporting in ConfigMgr
- Keeping an eye on your clients
- What to do when things go wrong
- Securing ConfigMgr
- All engines full steam ahead
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781617291685 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Manning |
| Publication date: | 07/19/2016 |
| Edition description: | 1st Edition |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvi
About this book xvii
About the author xix
1 Before you begin 1
1.1 Why Configuration Manager? 2
1.2 Is this book for you? 3
1.3 How to use this book 4
The main chapters 4
Try It Now sections 4
Above Of Beyond sidebars 4
Working with PowerShell 4
Labs 5
Further exploration 5
Which Log? sections 5
1.4 Setting up your lab environment 5
1.5 Using online resources 5
1.6 Being immediately effective with ConfigMgr 6
2 Setting up your lab environment 7
2.1 Create the virtual environment 8
2.2 Download the prerequisite software 11
Sysinternals BgInfo 11
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013 Update 2 12
Microsoft Assessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 10 (Version 1.511) 12
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP1 12
Windows Server 2012 R2 12
Windows 10 Enterprise x64 (Build 1511) 12
System Center Configuration Manager and Endpoint Protection 13
System Center Configuration Manage Prerequisites 13
Git repository 13
2.3 Install and configure MDT 2013 Update 2 14
Populate MDT with required software 15
Use MDT to generate an automated build image (ISO) 16
2.4 Build the virtual machines 19
DC01 19 - CM01 20
CLIENT01 21
2.5 Verify the ConfigMgr installation 22
3 Making ConfigMgr aware of your environment 24
3.1 Discovery concepts 25
Looking at log files 26
3.2 Discovery methods 26
Active Directory Forest Discovery 27
Active Directory System Discovery 30
Active Directory User Discovery 32
Active Directory Group Discovery 33
3.3 Boundaries 34
Creating a boundary 35
Creating a boundary group 36
Linking the boundary group with ConfigMgr 36
3.4 Lab 38
3.5 Ideas for on your own 38
Controversy over boundaries 39
4 Managing ConfigMgr devices and users 40
4.1 Understanding devices and the ConfigMgr client 41
Installing the ConfigMgr client on remote systems 41
4.2 Preparing for a client push 43
Set the client push account permissions 43
Open the Windows Firewall 44
Configure the client push account 46
4.3 Performing a client push 48
4.4 Working with users in the ConfigMgr world 51
4.5 Creating relationships between users and devices 52
Understanding a UDA scenario 53
Creating UDA relationships 53
4.6 Lab 55
Discover DC01 55
Disable the Windows Firewall on DC01 56
Push the ConfigMgr client to DC01 56
5 Organizing devices and users 57
5.1 Understanding collection concepts 58
Collection membership 60
Collection limiting 63
5.2 Creating a new collection 64
Creating a new device collection 65
Creating a new user collection 67
5.3 Understanding the WMI Query Language 69
Creating a basic query 69
Using multiple attributes 70
Querying multiple sources 71
Combining data from multiple sources 72
5.4 Managing collections 73
Use folders 73
Be aware of collection updating 74
Move collections between hierarchies 75
5.5 Lab 77
5.6 Ideas for on your own 77
6 Configuring ConfigMgr clients 78
6.1 Exploring client settings 79
Using Default Client Settings 80
Knowing when to change the Default Client Settings 83
Changing the Default Client Settings 83
6.2 Creating custom settings 85
Create custom device settings 85
Create custom user settings 87
6.3 Deploying custom settings 89
Deploying device settings 89
Deploying user settings 90
Verify deployed settings 91
6.4 Forcing policy updates 92
Forcing a policy update via a local client 93
Forcing a policy update remotely via a console 94
6.5 Lab 95
7 Creating and configuring applications with the AppModel 96
7.1 Exploring the ConfigMgr AppModel 96
ConfigMgr vs. ConfigMgr 2007 96
Applications vs. packages 98
7.2 Creating a ConfigMgr application 98
Preparing the application source 99
Creating your application 100
7.3 Configuring your application 102
Deployment types 102
Requirements 105
Detection methods 107
7.4 Lab 109
8 Deploying applications and packages to ConfigMgr clients 110
8.1 Deploying applications 111
8.2 Deploying applications to devices 111
Step 1: Distributing application content 112
Step 2: Deploying the application to a device collection 114
Step 3: Installing an application on a device 116
8.3 Deploying applications to users 118
Installing the Application Catalog 119
8.4 Creating and deploying packages 120
Creating a package 121
Deploying a package 123
8.5 Turning packages into applications 124
8.6 Labs 127
9 Ensuring that ConfigMgr clients can access content 128
9.1 Understanding distribution points 129
9.2 Distributing content 131
9.3 Working with distribution point groups 134
9.4 Keeping content healthy 136
Validating an individual package 137
Automating content validation 138
Spotting validation errors 139
9.5 Lab 139
9.6 Ideas for on your own 139
10 Keeping ConfigMgr clients patched 141
10.1 Install the software update point 142
Install WSUS prerequisites 142
Install and configure WSUS 143
Install post-WSUS hotfix 145
Install the software update point 145
10.2 Configure software updates in ConfigMgr 147
10.3 Download updates into ConfigMgr 149
10.4 Deploy updates to ConfigMgr clients 151
10.5 Lab 154
11 Preparing to deploy Windows 155
11.1 Importing an operating system image 156
11.2 Starting your deployment with WinPE 158
11.3 Handling different hardware platforms 159
11.4 Creating a new task sequence 163
11.5 Lab 165
12 Deploying Windows 166
12.1 Creating a new client system 167
12.2 Preparing for network booting 168
12.3 Customizing the deployment task sequence 169
Customizing disk partitions 170
Specifying TS variables 172
Applying device drivers 173
12.4 Deploying Windows 174
Making content available from Windows PE 174
Deploying the task sequence 174
Installing Windows 176
12.5 Lab 178
12.6 Ideas for on your own 178
13 Advanced deployment of Windows with ConfigMgr and MDT 179
13.1 Integrating MDT with ConfigMgr 180
Installing MDT 180
Building MDT packages within ConfigMgr 182
13.2 Making sure that MDT is awesome 185
Verifying MDT packages 185
Exploring MDT functionality 186
13.3 Lab 189
14 Managing Linux clients 190
14.1 Installing an Ubuntu server 190
14.2 Installing the ConfigMgr client for Linux 193
14.3 Navigating ConfigMgr for Linux 195
Connecting to Ubuntu remotely 196
Exploring ConfigMgr logs for Linux 197
14.4 Lab 198
15 Deploying to Linux and Mac clients 199
15.1 Linux client functionality 199
Working with the Linux client 200
Inventorying Linux systems 201
Deploying Linux packages 203
15.2 Working with Mac OS X 205
Introducing internet-based client management 206
Installing the OS X client 207
Deploying OS X applications 209
16 Managing anti-malware with ConfigMgr 214
16.1 Enabling System Center Endpoint Protection 215
Configuring software updates 215
Enabling the Endpoint Protection server role 219
Configuring Endpoint Protection on clients 220
16.2 Using anti-malware policies 221
16.3 Dealing with malware outbreaks 224
16.4 Labs 227
17 Making sure clients are healthy 228
17.1 Understanding common client health issues 228
17.2 Administering client health 232
Active clients 233
Inactive clients 234
17.3 Using Client Center for Configuration Manager 235
Monitoring 238
Inventory 238
Software Distribution 238
Agent Settings 238
17.4 Labs 239
18 Reporting in ConfigMgr 240
18.1 Enabling Reporting Services 240
18.2 Executing reports 243
18.3 Subscribing to reports 246
18.4 Building custom reports 248
18.5 Labs 249
19 Keeping an eye on your clients 250
19.1 Enabling software metering 250
19.2 Configuring compliance 254
Configuration Items 254
Configuration baselines 255
19.3 Seeing compliance in action 256
19.4 Labs 258
20 What to do when things go wrong 260
20.1 Assessing site health 260
20.2 Understanding common environmental issues 264
Disk space 264
Active Directory 266
DNS 267
Admin rights 269
Internet access 270
20.3 Labs 271
21 Securing ConfigMgr 272
21.1 Administrative users 274
21.2 Security roles 276
21.3 Security scopes 277
21.4 Granular permissions 279
21.5 Labs 282
22 All engines full steam ahead 283
22.1 Advanced ConfigMgr projects 283
More infrastructure 283
Use HTTPS 284
Go to the cloud 284
Take control of your database 284
Advanced client configuration 285
22.2 Learn from the community 285
Index 287