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System Center Configuration Manager 2007 |
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You Will Learn How To
- Install, configure, deploy and leverage SCCM 2007 throughout your
Windows enterprise
- Prepare for and implement SCCM sites
- Enable client agent settings for optimal performance
- Customize sites, establish system roles and designate discovery
methods
- Distribute applications, operating systems and security updates
- Run queries, initiate remote control and troubleshoot sites
Course Benefits
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 offers significant enhancements
for Windows resource management through comprehensive inventory collection, software
distribution, Windows OS deployment and security patching. SCCM allows organizations
to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership and gain control over their computing environments.
In this course, you gain the skills needed to configure and manage SCCM.
Who Should Attend
Anyone involved in using SCCM as an enterprise configuration and change management
solution. Experience with Windows at the level of Course 595, "Windows
Server 2003 Comprehensive Introduction," or Course 960, "Windows
Server 2008 Comprehensive Introduction," is assumed.
Hands-On Training
Throughout this course, you gain practical experience planning and deploying SCCM.
Extensive hands-on exercises include:
- Installing and configuring SCCM
- Configuring Discovery methods
- Setting up client agents and creating collections
- Deploying SCCM clients
- Distributing applications and security updates
- Managing clients remotely
- Recovering sites with the Site Recovery Wizard
- Enabling Desired Configuration Management (DCM)
Course Content
- Asset management
- Software distribution
- Remote management
- Security updates
- Desired Configuration Management (DCM)
- Wake-On LAN
- Integration with WSUS
- Expanded Operating System deployment
- Support for Internet clients
- Extending Active Directory
- Determining site hierarchy
- Optimizing SCCM with system role placement
- Defining software and hardware requirements
- Creating primary and secondary sites
- Running command line options
- Initiating an unattended installation
- Choosing side-by-side migrations vs. upgrading
- Maintaining mixed sites
- Specifying native vs. mixed mode
- Determining security controls
- Adopting certificates and PKI
- Controlling software and hardware inventory
- Establishing inventory frequency
- Leveraging remote control settings
- Appraising advertised client program settings
- Client push installation
- Group policy
- Software Update Point installation
- Running Resource Explorer
- Analyzing SCCM reports
- Reviewing inventory history
- Declaring site boundaries and addresses
- Conducting component configuration
- Enabling functionality with Management, Software Update, Distribution
Points and other roles
- Strategically placing roles
- Network
- Heartbeat
- Active Directory
- Scheduling and scoping Discovery
- Defining programs and requirements
- Selecting packages, programs and distribution points
- Scheduling and monitoring optional, mandatory or recurring distributions
- Targeting advertisements to collections
- Generating task sequences
- Capturing and deploying images
- Integrating WSUS with SCCM
- Implementing maintenance windows
- Reviewing results
- Building collections from queries
- Choosing Remote Assistance, Remote Desktop or Remote Tools
- Testing remote access
- Working with the SCCM 2007 Toolkit
- Utilizing the status system and status summarizers
- Backing up and restoring sites
- Running the Site Repair Wizard
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