System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Unleashed

Testing

This self-explanatory step is often over-looked and rarely given the time or attention that it deserves. So many different permutations and factors exist even in smaller and simpler environments that you can probably never test all of them; however, not properly and thoroughly testing as many as you can will result in poor results and lost data. In general, you should test against every scenario and model of hardware possible in your organization.

Much like a proper software development lifecycle, testing should account for most of your time when developing new task sequences. Although much of this time is watching progress bars, you will never actually know if your design work will result in the wanted outcome of a properly deployed ...