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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

ConfigMgr client installation

The installation of the ConfigMgr client always include three steps regardless of the chosen method:

Check whether the operating system meets all the initial requirements as well as the additional software requirements.
The next step is the ConfigMgr client installation. Step 1 and step 2 are completely separate tasks performed during installation.

Then, we find the assigned management point, which is searched based on the information found in the Active Directory, or the information given in the installer using the SMSMP switch.

Client installation is triggered by the ccmsetup.exe or ccmsetup.msi file when using GPO.

The ccmsetup.exe file performs the first step of installation. If it completes successfully, then it runs client.msi, which performs the actual client installation.

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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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