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System Center Configuration Manager 2007
View All CoursesOur System Center Configuration Manager Training Teaches You: ForeFront Client Management, Asset Intelligence, Desired Configuration Management and Much More. Plus, Complete 70-401 Exam Coverage!
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Prerequisite Knowledge and Abilities
- Course Technical Notes
- Lab Hardware Requirements
- Lab Server Configuration
- Course Overview
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- Introduction
- SCCM Site Server Roles
- SCCM Site Server Requirements
- SCCM Infrastructure Requirements
- Prerequisites
- Configure the AD System Container
- Install
- Mixed Mode vs. Native Mode
- Client Agent Selection and Other Installation Settings
- Update to SCCM 2007 R2
- What We Covered
- Vocabulary you Should Know
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- Introduction
- Introduction to the SCCM Console
- Site Settings
- Site Boundaries
- Active Directory Publishing
- Publish the Default Management Point in DNS
- Discovery Methods
- Client Agents
- Discovery and Collections
- What We Covered
- Vocabulary You Should Know
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- Introduction
- Required and Recommended Site Components
- Recommended Pre-Installation Steps
- Client Agents
- Pre-Install BITS
- SCCM Client Installation
- Client Push Method
- SCCM Client Installation Via Startup Script
- Manual SCCM Client Installation
- Other Methods for Deploying SCCM
- Troubleshooting SCCM, Client Discovery, and Client Installation
- SCCM Client Tasks
- What We Covered
- Vocabulary You Should Know
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- Introduction
- Client Agent Information - The Resource Explorer
- Windows Event Viewer
- About the SCCM Manager Reporting Point
- Add an SCCM Reporting Point
- Using the Reporting Point
- Running Reports from a Web Browser
- What We Covered
- Vocabulary You Should Know
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Terminology
- Creating and Managing Collections
- Configuring Software Distribution
- The Distribution Process in Action with Office 2007
- Creating and Adding Programs to the Package
- Distributing and Advertising the Package
- Client Side and Troubleshooting
- Software Distribution Status and Reporting
- What We Covered
- Vocabulary You Should Know
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- SCCM and Windows Server Update Services
- The Software Update Point
- Software Updates Client Agent
- Managing Software Updates
- Update Lists and Search Folders
- Create a Search Folder
- Create an Update List
- Add Updates to the Update List
- Deploying Updates Using an Update List
- Concept Recap
- Reusing an Existing Update List
- What We Covered
- Vocabulary You Should Know
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Topics Covered in this Video
- The Purpose of Desired Configuration Management (DCM)
- Terminology
- DCM in Previous Versions of SMS/SCCM
- DCM Prerequisites
- Enable the DCM Client Agent
- General DCM Process
- Download and Import Configuration Packs
- Configuration Items and Configuration Baselines
- Assign a Configuration Baseline to a Collection
- Compliance Verification and Reporting
- Security Compliance Management Toolkit
- Compliance Success and Failure
- Creating Your Own Configuration Item
- Create a Non-Compliance Collection for Remediation
- Identify Computers without .NET Framework v2.0
- Policy Creation Options
- Using DCM to Monitor ForeFront with SCCM 2007 R2
- What We Covered
- Vocabulary You Should Know
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Terminology
- About Asset Intelligence
- Asset Intelligence: Then and Now
- About the Catalog
- Asset Intelligence Prerequisites
- Enable Asset Intelligence
- Asset Intelligence Reporting Classes
- Enabling CAL Tracking
- Site Maintenance Tasks
- Importing Your MVLS License Statement
- CAL Tracking Gotchas
- General Asset Intelligence Caveats
- Asset Intelligence Synchronization Point
- Sample AI Reports
- What We Covered
- Vocabulary You Should Know
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Terminology
- Computers Used this Video
- Overall OS Deployment Process
- Prep SCCM and Other Services
- Build the Reference Computer
- Prepare to Capture the Reference Computer Image
- Capture the Reference Computer Image
- Import the Image into SCCM and Add it to a Distribution Point
- Understanding the OS Deployment Process
- Boot Images: Prepare and Add to Distribution Points
- Populate the SCCM Distribution Point with an Installation Package
- Add New Computers to a Collection
- Create, Configure, and Advertise a Task Sequence
- Deploy the Image
- OS Deployment Links
- What We Covered
- Vocabulary You Should Know
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Using SQL Server Reporting Services with SCC 2007
- Prerequisites
- Caveats
- Adding a Reporting Services Point
- Copy Existing Reports to Reporting Services
- Vocabulary You Should Know
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.
