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You're reading from Deploying Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Manage complex and heterogeneous workloads with ConfigMgr 1706

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785881015

Length 376 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager

Concepts

System Administration

Authors (2):

Paweł Jarosz

Jacek Doktór

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Design Planning FREE CHAPTER

2. Installing Configuration Manager

3. Configure Sites and Boundaries

4. Configuration Manager Agent Installation

5. Creating Client Settings for Servers and Workstations

6. Compliance Settings

7. Software Distributions

8. Software Update Management

9. Endpoint Protection

10. Operating System Deployment

11. Configuration Manager Assets

12. Role-Based Administration and Security

13. Site Server Maintenance Tasks

Applications versus packages

Each previous ConfigMgr version had its own method of being deployed when using packages. Starting from ConfigMgr 2012, there is a new mode, applications, which is the deployment of applications based on application installation files, such as .msi.

This chapter focuses on this second mode, and thanks to it, the administrator can significantly ease daily deployment administration. However, it won't be possible to leave out packages mode completely.

The packages mode is made mainly for running installations of Windows systems. It is not always possible to run an installation using the .msi file. A lot of applications use .exe, .bat scripts, or PowerShell scripts to get installed. In these cases, there is a need to use the packages mode instead of applications.

The administrator should always try to use the application mode whenever...

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Authors (2)

Jacek Doktór

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.

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Paweł Jarosz

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.

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