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Book Description

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.

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. Copyright
    2. Brief Table of Contents
    3. Table of Contents
    4. Preface
    5. Acknowledgments
    6. About this Book
    7. About the Author
    8. Chapter 1. Before you begin
    9. Chapter 2. Setting up your lab environment
    10. Chapter 3. Making ConfigMgr aware of your environment
    11. Chapter 4. Managing ConfigMgr devices and users
    12. Chapter 5. Organizing devices and users
    13. Chapter 6. Configuring ConfigMgr clients
    14. Chapter 7. Creating and configuring applications with the AppModel
    15. Chapter 8. Deploying applications and packages to ConfigMgr clients
    16. Chapter 9. Ensuring that ConfigMgr clients can access content
    17. Chapter 10. Keeping ConfigMgr clients patched
    18. Chapter 11. Preparing to deploy Windows
    19. Chapter 12. Deploying Windows
    20. Chapter 13. Advanced deployment of Windows with ConfigMgr and MDT
    21. Chapter 14. Managing Linux clients
    22. Chapter 15. Deploying to Linux and Mac clients
    23. Chapter 16. Managing anti-malware with ConfigMgr
    24. Chapter 17. Making sure clients are healthy
    25. Chapter 18. Reporting in ConfigMgr
    26. Chapter 19. Keeping an eye on your clients
    27. Chapter 20. What to do when things go wrong
    28. Chapter 21. Securing ConfigMgr
    29. Chapter 22. All engines full steam ahead
    30. Index
    31. List of Figures
    32. List of Tables
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