System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Unleashed

This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007!

 

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Unleashed is a comprehensive guide to System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007. ConfigMgr 2007 helps you manage servers and desktops, integrates SMS 2003 feature pack functionality, and adds new capabilities. It enables you to assess, deploy, and update servers, clients, and devices across physical, virtual, distributed, and mobile environments, including clients that connect only over the Internet. This book guides you through designing, deploying, and configuring ConfigMgr 2007 with detailed information on topics such as capacity planning, security, site design and hierarchy planning, server placement, discovery, native mode, and using Windows Server 2008. You will learn how to tackle challenges such as setting up DCM and OSD, customizing inventory, creating queries and using query results, and configuring asset intelligence.

 

Detailed information on how to

 

 Understand how ConfigMgr works

 Plan your ConfigMgr deployment

 Manage Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

 Architect for performance

 Install or migrate to ConfigMgr 2007 with Windows 2003 or Windows 2008

 Discover and manage clients

 Create and distribute packages

 Understand patch and compliance management

 Create queries

 Use reports

 Deploy operating systems

 Secure ConfigMgr 2007

 Perform site maintenance

 Back up ConfigMgr components

 

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Kerrie Meyler is lead author of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed and System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed. A consultant and Microsoft Certified Trainer, she previously evangelized SMS for Microsoft. Byron Holt supports Configuration Manager at a top security technology firm. At Microsoft, he served on Active Directory and Enterprise Manageability support teams. Rod Trent is CEO of myITforum.com. A leading expert on Microsoft System Center products, he authored Microsoft SMS Installer and Admin911: SMS. Pete Zerger, AKOS Technology Services consulting partner, delivers enterprise operations management, directory, and messaging solutions. He founded systemcenterforum.org

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Foreword     xxi

Introduction     1

Part I: Configuration Management Overview and Concepts     2

Part II: Planning, Design, and Installation     2

Part III: Configuration Manager Operations     2

Part IV: Administering Configuration Manager 2007     3

Part V: Appendixes     3

 

Part I: Configuration Management Overview and Concepts

 

Chapter 1   Configuration Management Basics     7

Ten Reasons to Use Configuration Manager      8

The Evolution of Systems Management     9

Hurdles in the Distributed Enterprise     10

The Automation Challenge     10

Configuration Shift and Drift     11

Lack of Security and Control     11

Timeliness of Asset Data     12

Lack of Automation and Enforcement     12

Proliferation of Virtualization     13

Lack of Process Consistency     13

The Bottom Line     14

Systems Management Defined     14

Microsofts Strategy for Service Management     15

Microsofts Dynamic Systems Initiative      16

IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF)     19

Service Management Mastery: ISO 20000     24

Optimizing Your Infrastructure     25

Bridging the Systems Management Gap     29

Central Control in the Distributed Enterprise     30

Automation and Control     32

Securing Systems     34

Visibility     35

Overview of Microsoft System Center     39

Reporting in System Center     39

Operations Management     40

System Center Essentials     41

Service Manager: A Complete Service Desk Solution     41

Protecting Data     43

Capacity Planning     44

Virtual Machine Management     44

The Value Proposition of Configuration Manager 2007     45

Summary     46

 

Chapter 2   Configuration Manager 2007 Overview     47

The History of Configuration Manager     47

The Earliest Versions     47

Systems Managemen...

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