Book description
Design, implement, and configure System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 with the help of real-world examples
In Detail
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is an enterprise device management solution from Microsoft. It helps manage applications from a single location, managing deployments on single or multiple devices and providing security of data stored on those devices. It contains a large number of features that are not always exposed in every environment. Expanding your knowledge of Configuration Manager will ensure that you and your organization get the best out of your investment in Configuration Manager.
This book will give you thorough insights into Configuration Manager environments from a design perspective. You will understand how proper decisions made at the first stage of a deployment can lead to a successful implementation at the later stages. Following this, you will learn how to secure your site using certificates and also deploy and manage endpoint protection to clients.
What You Will Learn
- Analyze your environment to provide the best design solution
- Secure your environment using certificates and encryption
- Address challenges with unwanted application installations
- Provide a secure operating system with endpoint protection
- Learn how content management works in Configuration Manager
- Deploy complex desktop and server operating systems
- Keep your environment up to date with security updates
- Manage mobile devices and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
Table of contents
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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment
- Table of Contents
- Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Designing Complex Hierarchies
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2. Implementing Security with Certificates
- Planning for the use of certificates
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Setting up a secure communication
- Preparing the certificate authority
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Configuring certificate templates
- Creating the web server certificate template
- Creating the client certificate for distribution points
- Creating the client certificate for Windows computers
- Issuing certificate templates
- Requesting the web server certificate
- Requesting the client certificate for distribution points
- Deploying the client certificate for Windows workstations
- Configuring IIS to use the distribution point certificate
- Configuring Configuration Manager
- Deploying certificates to workgroup computers
- Summary
- 3. Working with Inventory, Asset Intelligence, and Software Metering
- 4. Security with Endpoint Protection
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5. Advanced Content Management
- Deploying distribution points
- How to deploy cloud distribution points
- Understanding the content library
- Introducing network caching
- Working with data deduplication
- Summary
- 6. Application Deployment
- 7. Deploying Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
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8. Deploying Security Updates
- Software updates
- Designing a software update infrastructure
- Monitoring software updates
- A sample scenario to patch workstations
- A sample scenario to patch servers
- Summary
- 9. Advanced Reporting
- 10. Preventing Configuration Drift
- 11. Managing Bring Your Own Device and Mobility
- 12. Advanced Troubleshooting
- Index
Product information
- Title: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2014
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782172086
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