System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed
The comprehensive reference and technical guide to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012.Foreword by Wally Mead, Microsoft CorporationLeading System Center experts offer step-by-step coverage of every feature area, organized to help you rapidly optimize ConfigMgr 2012 for your specific requirements, deploy and use it successfully, and gain even more value by integrating it with the rest of System Center.Extensively revised to reflect major improvements in Configuration Manager 2012, this book fully addresses planning, design, and implementation, offering best practice processes for everything from software distribution to client security. Drawing on their unsurpassed “in-the-trenches” experience, the authors show how to use Configuration Manager 2012’s user-centric capabilities to provide anytime/anywhere services and software, and to strengthen both control and compliance.• Understand Configuration Manager 2012’s key concepts and components• Plan your architecture, and design supporting network infrastructure• Install Configuration Manager 2012 and integrate it with existing systems• Leverage Configuration Manager 2012’s major improvements in security and scalability• Manage operations and clients through the new Outlook-style console• Efficiently create, manage, distribute, deploy, and update applications• Centrally manage all your mobile devices• Simplify client security management with new Endpoint Protection capabilities• Query and report on configurations throughout your enterprise• Implement reliable backup and recovery• Establish security accounts, groups, and requirements, and safely delegate security rights