System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed

Description

This is the comprehensive reference and technical guide to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012. A team of expert authors offers step-by-step coverage of related topics in every feature area, organized to help IT professionals rapidly optimize Configuration Manager 2012 for their requirements, and then deploy and use it successfully. The authors begin by introducing Configuration Manager 2012 and its goals, and explaining how it fits into the broader System Center product suite. Next, they fully address planning, design, and implementation. Finally, they systematically cover each of Configuration Manager 2012's most important feature sets, addressing issues ranging from configuration management to software distribution. Readers will learn how to use Configuration Manager 2012's user-centric capabilities to provide anytime/anywhere services and software, and to strengthen both control and compliance. The first book on Configuration Manager 2012, System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Unleashed joins Sams' market-leading series of books on Microsoft's System Center product suite: books that have achieved go-to status amongst IT implementers and administrators worldwide.

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Table of Contents

• PART I:  Configuration Manager Overview and Concepts
• Chapter 1  Configuration Management Basics  
• Chapter 2  Configuration Manager Overview 
• Chapter 3  Looking Inside Configuration Manager
• PART II:  Planning, Design, and Installation
• Chapter 4  Architecture Design Planning
• Chapter 5  Network Design
• Chapter 6  Installing System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
• Chapter 7  Migrating to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
• PART III:  Configuration Manager Operations
• Chapter 8  The Configuration Manager Console
• Chapter 9  Configuration Manager Client Management
• PART IV:  Software and Configuration Management
• Chapter 10  Managing Compliance
• Chapter 11  Packages and Programs
• Chapter 12  Creating and Managing Applications    
• Chapter 13  Distributing and Deploying Applications   
• Chapter 14  Software Update Management    
• Chapter 15  Mobile Device Management    
• Chapter 16  Endpoint Protection    
• Chapter 17  Configuration Manager Queries   
• Chapter 18  Reporting   
• Chapter 19  Operating System Deployment
• PART V:  Administering System Center Configuration Manager
• Chapter 20  Security and Delegation in Configuration Manager
• Chapter 21  Backup, Recovery, and Maintenance  
• PART VI:  Appendixes
• Appendix A  Configuration Manager Log Files
• Appendix B  Extending Hardware Inventory
• Appendix C  Reference URLs 
• Appendix D  Available Online 

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