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System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
View All CoursesIn this hands on, practical course, you will move from learning about base SCCM concepts right into real world scenario-based demonstrations that can help you start solving complex problems right here, right now. By the end of the course, you will have been exposed to most of what SCCM has to offer and will have the means at your disposal to help improve IT operations so that IT can focus on business problems rather than technical ones.
Lessons
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- Introduction
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- Introduction
- About System Center Configuration Manager
- What's New in SCCM 2012?
- SCCM Licensing Terminology
- Understanding SCCM Licensing
- Understanding SCCM Roles
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- CIO's Perspective: SCCM and IT Impact
- Active Directory Tasks
- System and Network Requirements
- SCCM Firewall Considerations
- SQL Configuration for SCCM
- Supporting Resources
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Installation Process
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- New and Improved!
- The Console
- Role-Based Access Security
- Understanding Roles and Scopes
- Creating Security Roles and Scopes
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Management Point
- Distribution Point
- Distribution Point Groups
- Boundaries and Boundary Groups
- Reviewing Other Site Settings
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- New in SCCM 2012 Discovery
- Discovery Facts
- How Discovery Works
- Active Directory System Discovery
- Active Directory Forest Discovery
- Active Directory Group Discovery
- Active Directory User Discovery
- Network Discovery
- Heartbest Discovery
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Client Settings Changes
- Managing Client Settings
- Exploring Client Settings and Options
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- Introduction
- SCCM Client and OS Compatibility
- Embedded Operating System Support
- Client Requirements
- Additional Client Requirements
- Client Installation Options
- Additional Considerations
- Monitor and Troubleshoot Client Deployment
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Reviewing Client Properties
- Server-Based SCCM Client Tasks
- Monitoring Client Health
- Blocking and Unblocking Clients
- Managing User Device Affinity
- Managing Conflicting Client Records
- Exploring Local Client Options
- Every SCCM Admin Needs Right-Click Tools
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Built-in Collections
- What’s New in Collections in SCCM 2012?
- Creating Collections
- Using and Managing Collections
- Action Items for Globomantics
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Adding Reporting Capability to SCCM
- Reporting Facts
- Reporting Security
- Writing Your Own Reports
- Other Report Management Options
- Creating Report Subscriptions
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Understanding the Need for Distribution Points
- Distribution Point Facts
- BranchCache and Distribution Points
- Pre-staging Content
- About the Network Access Account
- Understanding Content Security
- Content Manipulation Overview
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Adding the Application Catalog and Web Service
- Deployment Facts
- The Application Deployment Process
- A Globomantics Deployment
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What’s New in SCCM 2012
- Software Updates Prerequisites
- Software Updates Recommendations
- Software Updates Process Overview
- Adding the Software Update Point to Your Site
- Synchronize Software Updates
- Configure Classifications and Products
- Verify Client Settings
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What’s New in Endpoint Protection
- Endpoint Protection Deployment Overview
- Creating a Default Malware Policy
- Enabling Endpoint Protection
- Configuring Alerts
- Monitoring and Managing Endpoint Protection
- Testing Endpoint Protection
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Asset Intelligence Components
- What’s New in Asset Intelligence?
- Asset Intelligence Deployment Overview
- Asset Intelligence Prerequisites
- Globomantics Action Items
- Post-Installation Tasks
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What’s New in Compliance Settings?
- Compliance Settings Concepts
- Compliance Settings Prerequisites
- Configuration Item Types
- Creating Configuration Items
- Creating and Deploying a Configuration Baseline
- Additional Compliance Capabilities
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What’s New in Deployment?
- About This Lesson
- Understanding the Deployment Process
- Operating System Deployment Site Configuration
- Capturing and Importing a Reference OS Image
- Deploying and Configuring the OS Image
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- What's New in Power Management?
- Power Managment Implementation Phases
- Planning for Power Management
- Monitoring Power Management
- Enforcing Power Management
- Ongoing Power Managment Compliance
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- HTTP vs. HTTPS Communication
- Role Based Access Control
- Firewalls in SCCM
- SCCM 2012 Security Best Practices
- What We Covered
Instructor
Scott D. Lowe
Scott is the Founder and Managing Consultant of THE 1610 Group. By night (and sometimes weekends, lunch, and everything in between!) Scott writes technical articles for CNet's TechRepublic, TechTarget, and TechGenix.
For TechRepublic, for whom he has written hundreds of articles, Scott writes weekly in the Servers and Storage area, monthly in the IT Leadership area and in other areas on an ad hoc basis. Scott also writes for TechTarget's SearchCIO-Midmarket site and is the lead author for TechGenix's virtualizationadmin.com site. Scott is the author of O'Reilly's Home Networking: The Missing Manual and a coauthor of Microsoft Press' Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Companion and the MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-653): Configuring Windows Small Business Server 2008 book.
