Designing fault-tolerant hierarchies

In today's world, the systems we design and deploy are under more pressure than ever. We are expected to design systems with less money to implement, which can lead to design mistakes or errors in judgment. One area that usually suffers from this is the design of fault tolerance or disaster recovery. In a legacy world, Configuration Manager has been seen as a tool only used by IT departments to manage machines and has often given little business benefit. With the new wave of mobile devices, tablet devices, and other scenarios, such as bring your own device, Configuration Manager has suddenly become a critical application that is used to manage all these devices from one single pane of glass.

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