Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager [SCCM]
System Center Configuration Manager is a comprehensive management platform that enables you to more easily and efficiently manage your IT environment, including your server infrastructure and client devices.
Microsoft SCCM 2012 Course Outline
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Design and plan System Center Configuration Manager infrastructure
Plan System Center Configuration Manager hierarchy and site system roles
- Pre-installation requirements, examining the current computing environment, CAS, primary and secondary sites, branch cache, designing and recommending System Center Configuration Manager server architecture, extending the Active Directory schema (DNS service records, WINS), managed providers, discovery methods, and planning migration
Plan and configure security
- PKI or self-signed certificates, HTTP or HTTPs implementation, NAP, FEP, and planning role-based security
Define the Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
- Disaster recovery and site maintenance
Configure the OSD environment
- Configuring WDS, configuring PXE, configuring the VM build environment, and integrating with MDT
Build and capture an image
- Updating base images, task sequences
Deploy an image
- New (bare metal) and upgrade images, VHD deployment
Manage images
- Drivers, servicing
Deploy applications and software updates
Create an application
- Defining deployment types, deploying applications to RDSH, MSI, and App-V, and converting a package
Deploy an application
User device affinity, compliance settings, Software Center, and task sequences
Monitor application deployment
- Resolving issues, managing application distribution points, distribution point groups, Content Library, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), log files, and In Console Monitoring
Manage the software library and application catalog
- Web portal configuration, work schedule, and definition of primary machines for users
Create and monitor software updates
- Automatic Deployment Rules (ADR), SSRS, creating update groups, creating deployment packages, log files, and In Console Monitoring
Configure FEP clients by using System Center Configuration Manager
- Creating and managing policy by using Configuration Manager, configuring definitions within the client policy, exporting from Configuration Manager, choosing which template to use, and select exclusions
Manage compliance settings
Build a Configuration Item (CI)
- Creating a CI, importing a CI, setting CI versioning, and remediation rules
Create and monitor a baseline
- Importing a configuration pack, building a custom baseline, SSRS, log files, In Console Monitoring, deploying a baseline
Manage collections
- Setting maintenance windows, defining rules for collections (collection membership, query-based collections), collection-specific settings
Monitor site health
- SSRS, log files, In Console Monitoring, Toolkit
- Configure software updates
- Sync schedule, catalogs, products, WSUS, and superseded updates
Manage site communications
- Configuring bandwidth settings for a site address, configuring senders, secondary sites (file-based replication, SQL replication paths), resolving DP connections
Manage boundary groups
- Creating boundary groups, using boundary groups in more than one DP, client roaming, Internet-based clients
Manage role-based security
- Security scopes, custom roles, cloned security roles and permissions
Deploy clients
- GPO, WSUS, logon scripts, manual, client push, OSD task sequence, monitoring client health
Manage mobile devices
- Enrolling mobile devices, Exchange Connector, AMT enrollment point (out-of-band management), and wiping mobile devices
Manage client agent settings
- Desired configuration settings, mobile device client agent, NAP client agent, configuring power management, configuring remote control agent, hardware inventory agent, software inventory agent, software metering agent, advertised programs agent, computer agent
Manage hardware inventory
- Configuring MOF, export and import settings, enabling or disabling WMI classes, extending hardware inventory to other client assets, WMI or registry reporting
Manage software inventory
- Standardized vendor name, list of tracked inventory, report inventory data, asset intelligence, software metering (enable or disable rules, report software metering results)
Monitor inventory data flow
- Client-to-site, site-to-site
Build queries
- Console queries, WQL, sub-selects
Create reports
- Cloning and modifying reports, creating custom reports, import and export reports
Manage SSRS
Configuring security, configuring caching, configuring subscriptions
Practical Approach
- A real-time examples will be given throughout the lectures, starting from design, analysis, implementation and maintenance of network.