Summary

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.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

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

1. Before you begin


2. Setting up your lab environment


3. Making ConfigMgr aware of your environment


4. Managing ConfigMgr devices and users


5. Organizing devices and users


6. Configuring ConfigMgr clients


7. Creating and configuring applications with the AppModel


8. Deploying applications and packages to ConfigMgr clients


9. Ensuring that ConfigMgr clients can access content


10. Keeping ConfigMgr clients patched


11. Preparing to deploy Windows


12. Deploying Windows


13. Advanced deployment of Windows with ConfigMgr and MDT


14. Managing Linux clients


15. Deploying to Linux and Mac clients


16. Managing anti-malware with ConfigMgr


17. Making sure clients are healthy


18. Reporting in ConfigMgr


19. Keeping an eye on your clients


20. What to do when things go wrong


21. Securing ConfigMgr


22. All engines full steam ahead