Learn System Center Configuration Manager in a Month of Lunches

Book Description

Summary

Learn System Center Configuration Manager in a Month of Lunches is a super-practical guide to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. In this book, you’ll cut to the chase and learn the administrative procedures and techniques that will keep your systems humming smoothly.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

About the Technology

Businesses rely on a complex patchwork of client computers, physical and virtual servers, middleware, mobile devices, and cloud services. Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) sits in the middle of this mix, providing a single administrative control center to deploy and manage Windows servers and applications across your entire infrastructure, including cross-platform management of Mac OS X, Linux, and UNIX. To get up to speed with the day-to-day tasks of managing a system with ConfigMgr, all you need is this book—and a quiet place to eat your lunch.

About the Book

Learn System Center Configuration Manager in a Month of Lunches is a super-practical guide to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. In this book, you’ll cut to the chase and learn the administrative procedures and techniques that will keep your systems humming smoothly. Whether you’re a new sysadmin or you already understand the inner workings of Active Directory and Windows Server, you’ll be productive immediately as you work through the 22 self-contained lessons in this handy tutorial.

What’s Inside

• Covers the latest build of Configuration Manager
• How to simplify updates, operating system deployment, and reporting
• Cross-platform and mobile management including Linux, OS X, and Windows
• Smart application delivery

About the Reader

No prior experience with System Center Configuration Manager needed.

About the Author

James Bannan is a Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP based in Australia.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Before you begin
Chapter 2 Setting up your lab environment
Chapter 3 Making ConfigMgr aware of your environment
Chapter 4 Managing ConfigMgr devices and users
Chapter 5 Organizing devices and users
Chapter 6 Configuring ConfigMgr clients
Chapter 7 Creating and configuring applications with the AppModel
Chapter 8 Deploying applications and packages to ConfigMgr clients
Chapter 9 Ensuring that ConfigMgr clients can access content
Chapter 10 Keeping ConfigMgr clients patched
Chapter 11 Preparing to deploy Windows
Chapter 12 Deploying Windows
Chapter 13 Advanced deployment of Windows with ConfigMgr and MDT
Chapter 14 Managing Linux clients
Chapter 15 Deploying to Linux and Mac clients
Chapter 16 Managing anti-malware with ConfigMgr
Chapter 17 Making sure clients are healthy
Chapter 18 Reporting in ConfigMgr
Chapter 19 Keeping an eye on your clients
Chapter 20 What to do when things go wrong
Chapter 21 Securing ConfigMgr
Chapter 22 All engines full steam ahead

中文：

书名：Learn System Center Configuration Manager in a Month of Lunches

Summary

在一个月的午餐时间里学习System Center Configuration Manager 是Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager的超级实用指南。在这本书中，你将切入正题，学习让你的系统平稳运行的管理程序和技术。

购买纸质书时，曼宁提供免费的PDF、ePub和Kindle电子书。书中的所有代码也是可用的。

关于技术

企业依赖于客户端计算机、物理和虚拟服务器、中间件、移动设备和云服务的复杂拼凑。Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager(SCCM)处于这一组合的中间，提供单个管理控制中心来部署和管理整个基础架构中的Windows服务器和应用程序，包括对Mac OS X、Linux和UNIX的跨平台管理。要快速了解使用ConfigMgr管理系统的日常任务，您只需阅读这本书，并在一个安静的地方吃午饭。

About the Book

在一个月的午餐时间里学习System Center Configuration Manager 是Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager的超级实用指南。在这本书中，您将切入主题，学习使您的系统保持平稳运行的管理程序和技术。无论您是系统管理员新手，还是已经了解Active Directory和Windows Server的内部工作原理，在学习本教程中的22个自包含的课程时，您都会立即提高工作效率。

里面有什么？

• Covers the latest build of Configuration Manager
• 如何简化更新、操作系统部署和报告
• 跨平台和移动管理，包括Linux、OS X和Windows
• Smart application delivery

About the Reader

不需要以前使用System Center Configuration Manager的经验。

关于作者

James Bannan 是一家总部位于澳大利亚的云和数据中心管理MVP。

目录表

开始之前的第一章
第2章设置您的实验环境
第3章让ConfigMgr了解您的环境
Chapter 4 Managing ConfigMgr devices and users
第5章组织设备和用户
第6章配置-ConfigMgr客户端
第7章使用AppModel创建和配置应用程序
第8章将应用程序和包部署到ConfigMgr客户端
第9章确保ConfigMgr客户端可以访问内容
第10章为ConfigMgr客户端打补丁
第11章准备部署Windows
Chapter 12 Deploying Windows
Chapter 13 Advanced deployment of Windows with ConfigMgr and MDT
Chapter 14 Managing Linux clients
Chapter 15 Deploying to Linux and Mac clients
Chapter 16 Managing anti-malware with ConfigMgr
第十七章确保客户健康
第18章ConfigMgr中的报告
第十九章密切关注你的客户
第二十章出差错时该怎么办
Chapter 21 Securing ConfigMgr
第二十二章所有引擎全速前进