System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Unleashed, Rough Cuts

Description

• Copyright 2010
• Dimensions: 7 X 9-1/8
• Pages: 1224
• Edition: 1st

• Rough Cuts
• ISBN-10: 0-7686-8954-6
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7686-8954-9

This is a working draft of a pre-release book. It is available before the published date as part of the Rough Cuts service.

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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Sample Content

Table of Contents

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

Microsoft’s Strategy for Service Management     15

Microsoft’s 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

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