- Plan System Center
Configuration Manager hierarchy and site system roles
·
Pre-installation
requirements, examining the current computing environment, CAS, primary and
secondary sites, branch cache, designing and recommending System Center
Configuration Manager server architecture, extending the Active Directory
schema (DNS service records, WINS), managed providers, discovery methods, and
planning migration
- Plan and configure security
·
PKI or self-signed
certificates, HTTP or HTTPs implementation, NAP, FEP, and planning role-based
security
- Define the Business Continuity
Plan (BCP)
·
Disaster recovery and
site maintenance
Preparation resources
- Planning
for Configuration Manager sites and hierarchy
- Security
and privacy for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
- Backup
and recovery in Configuration Manager
- Configure the OSD environment
·
Configuring WDS,
configuring PXE, configuring the VM build environment, and integrating with MDT
- Build and capture an image
·
Updating base images,
task sequences
- Deploy an image
·
New (bare metal) and
upgrade images, VHD deployment
- Manage images
·
Drivers, servicing
Preparation resources
- Planning
for PXE-initiated operating system deployments in Configuration Manager
- Planning
for Deploying operating system images in Configuration Manager
- Planning
for boot image deployments in Configuration Manager
- Create an application
·
Defining deployment
types, deploying applications to RDSH, MSI, and App-V, and converting a package
- Deploy an application
·
User device affinity,
compliance settings, Software Center, and task sequences
- Monitor application deployment
·
Resolving issues,
managing application distribution points, distribution point groups, Content
Library, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), log files, and In Console
Monitoring
- Manage the software library and
application catalog
·
Web portal
configuration, work schedule, and definition of primary machines for users
- Create and monitor software
updates
·
Automatic Deployment
Rules (ADR), SSRS, creating update groups, creating deployment packages, log
files, and In Console Monitoring
- Configure FEP clients by using
System Center Configuration Manager
·
Creating and managing
policy by using Configuration Manager, configuring definitions within the
client policy, exporting from Configuration Manager, choosing which template to
use, and select exclusions
Preparation resources
- How to
deploy applications in Configuration Manager
- Software
updates in Configuration Manager
- Configuring
Endpoint Protection in Configuration Manager
- Build a Configuration Item (CI)
·
Creating a CI,
importing a CI, setting CI versioning, and remediation rules
- Create and monitor a baseline
·
Importing a
configuration pack, building a custom baseline, SSRS, log files, In Console
Monitoring, deploying a baseline
Preparation resources
- Compliance
settings in Configuration Manager
- How
to create Windows configuration items for compliance settings in
Configuration Manager
- How
to monitor for compliance settings in Configuration Manager
- Manage collections
·
Setting maintenance
windows, defining rules for collections (collection membership, query-based
collections), collection-specific settings
- Monitor site health
·
SSRS, log files, In
Console Monitoring, Toolkit
- Configure software updates
·
Sync schedule,
catalogs, products, WSUS, and superseded updates
- Manage site communications
·
Configuring bandwidth
settings for a site address, configuring senders, secondary sites (file-based
replication, SQL replication paths), resolving DP connections
- Manage boundary groups
·
Creating boundary
groups, using boundary groups in more than one DP, client roaming,
Internet-based clients
- Manage role-based security
·
Security scopes,
custom roles, cloned security roles and permissions
Preparation resources
- Site
administration for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
- Configuring
software updates in Configuration Manager
- Implementing
role-based administration
- Deploy clients
·
GPO, WSUS, logon
scripts, manual, client push, OSD task sequence, monitoring client health
- Manage mobile devices
·
Enrolling mobile
devices, Exchange Connector, AMT enrollment point (out-of-band management), and
wiping mobile devices
- Manage client agent settings
·
Desired configuration
settings, mobile device client agent, NAP client agent, configuring power
management, configuring remote control agent, hardware inventory agent,
software inventory agent, software metering agent, advertised programs agent,
computer agent
Preparation resources
- Deploying
clients for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
- System
Center: Managing mobile devices
- Deploying
and managing ConfigMgr clients
- Manage hardware inventory
·
Configuring MOF,
export and import settings, enabling or disabling WMI classes, extending
hardware inventory to other client assets, WMI or registry reporting
- Manage software inventory
·
Standardized vendor name,
list of tracked inventory, report inventory data, asset intelligence, software
metering (enable or disable rules, report software metering results)
- Monitor inventory data flow
·
Client-to-site,
site-to-site
Preparation resources
- Hardware
inventory in Configuration Manager
- Software
inventory in Configuration Manager
- Technical
reference for site communications in Configuration Manager
- Build queries
·
Console queries, WQL,
sub-selects
- Create reports
·
Cloning and modifying
reports, creating custom reports, import and export reports
- Manage SSRS
·
Configuring security,
configuring caching, configuring subscriptions
Preparation resources
- Configuring
reporting in Configuration Manager
- Reporting in System Center
2012 Configuration Manager SP1
- How
to create queries in Configuration Manager
