This five-day course describes how to use Configuration Manager and its associated site systems to efficiently manage network resources. In this five-day course, you will learn day-to-day management tasks, including how to manage applications, client health, hardware and software inventory, operating system deployment, and software updates by using Configuration Manager. You also will learn how to optimize System Center Endpoint Protection, manage compliance, and create management queries and reports. Additionally, this course, in conjunction with Microsoft Official Course 20703-2A, helps certification candidates prepare for Exam 70-703: Administering System Center Configuration Manager and Cloud Services Integration.
This course is for individuals who are interested in taking Exam 70-703: Administering System Center Configuration Manager and Cloud Services Integration. Courses 20703-1A and 20703-2A, or equivalent knowledge and skills, are necessary to prepare for this exam.
This module describes the features of Configuration Manager that you can use to perform complex management tasks, including the following tasks:
Protection from malware.
Lessons
Overview of systems management by using enterprise management solutions
Overview of the Configuration Manager architecture
Overview of the Configuration Manager administrative tools
Tools for monitoring and troubleshooting a Configuration Manager site
Lab : Exploring the Configuration Manager tools
Searching in the Configuration Manager console
Using Windows PowerShell with Configuration Manager
Using Configuration Manager Service Manager to manage components
Monitoring site and component status
Reviewing log files by using the Configuration Manager Trace tool
Explain how to use Configuration Manager to address the challenges of managing systems and users in today's enterprise.
Describe the Configuration Manager architecture.
Describe the management tools that you use to perform administrative functions for Configuration Manager.
Describe the tools that you use to monitor and troubleshoot a Configuration Manager site.
The Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager database stores a large amount of data about the resources in your environment. You might not always want to perform all management tasks on all resources simultaneously. Therefore, to help you locate devices or user objects in your environment that meet specific criteria, you can create queries. You then can use these queries to create collections or to find additional information about specific resources. This module describes queries and methods of creating and running them. In addition to queries, you can run reports to view various types of information related to your Configuration Manager environment. To run Configuration Manager reports, you must install and configure a reporting services point, which this module details.
Introduction to queries
Configuring Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Lab : Creating and running queriesConfiguring boundaries and resource discovery
Creating data queries
Creating subselect queries
Creating status message queries
Lab : Configuring SSRS
Configuring a reporting services point
Creating a report by using Report Builder
Create and configure data and status message queries.
Configure and manage SSRS and the reporting services point.
This module explains how to prepare the management infrastructure, including configuring boundaries, boundary groups, and resource discovery. Additionally, it describes how Configuration Manager interacts with the Microsoft Exchange Server environment to discover and manage mobile devices.
Configuring site boundaries and boundary groups
Configuring resource discovery
Configuring the Exchange Server Connector for mobile device management
Configuring user and device collections
Lab : Configuring boundaries and resource discovery
Configuring boundaries, boundary groups, and fallback relationships
Configuring Active Directory discovery methods
Lab : Configuring user and device collections
Creating a device collection
Creating a user collection
Configuring a maintenance window
Configure boundaries and boundary groups.
Configure resource discovery.
Configure the Exchange Server connector mobile device management.
Organize resources using device and user collections.
This module explains the supported operating systems and devices, the software requirements, and the different methods for installing the Configuration Manager client. This module also describes some of the default and custom client settings that you can configure. After installing the client software, you can configure the client settings to perform routine management tasks.
Overview of the Configuration Manager client
Deploying the Configuration Manager client
Configuring and monitoring client status
Managing client settings in Configuration Manager
Lab : Deploying the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager client software
Preparing the site for client installation
Deploying the Configuration Manager client software by using client push installation
Lab : Configuring and monitoring client status
Configuring and monitoring client health status
Lab : Managing client settings
Configuring client settings
Describe the requirements and considerations for installing the Configuration Manager client software.
Deploy the Configuration Manager client software.
Configure and monitor client status.
Manage Configuration Manager client settings.
This module provides an overview of inventory collection, and explains how you can manage the information collected. You also will learn about the process of collecting hardware and software inventory, initiating inventory cycles, and initiating and securing inventory collection. This module also covers the use of software metering to monitor program usage, and the configuration and management of Asset Intelligence.
Overview of inventory collection
Configuring hardware and software inventory
Managing inventory collection
Configuring software metering
Configuring and managing Asset Intelligence
Lab : Configuring and managing inventory collection
Configuring and managing hardware inventory
Lab : Configuring software metering
Lab : Configuring and managing Asset Intelligence
Preparing the site for Asset Intelligence
Configuring Asset Intelligence
Monitoring license agreements by using Asset Intelligence
Viewing Asset Intelligence reports
Describe inventory collection.
Configure and collect hardware and software inventory.
Manage inventory collection.
Configure software metering.
Configure Asset Intelligence.
Configuration Manager clients obtain content, such as packages, applications, software updates, and even operating system images, from distribution points. Configuration Manager relies on the distribution point infrastructure to provide content management functionality. In this module, you will review the content management features, configure distribution points, and learn how to distribute and monitor content. You also will perform content validation and content prestaging.
Preparing the infrastructure for content management
Distributing and managing content on distribution points
Lab : Distributing and managing content for deployments
Installing a new distribution point
Managing content distribution
Prepare the infrastructure for content management.
Distribute and manage content on distribution points.
In this module, you will learn about the methods for creating, deploying, and managing applications with Configuration Manager. You also will learn to use the Software Center and the Application Catalog to install available applications. You will learn about managing deployments on unconventional applications. In addition, you will learn to install Windows 10 apps and virtualized applications.
Overview of application management
Creating applications
Deploying applications
Managing applications
Deploying virtual applications by using System Center Configuration Manager (Optional)
Deploying and managing Windows Store apps
Lab : Creating and deploying applications
Installing and configuring the Application Catalog roles
Creating applications with requirements
Lab : Managing application supersedence and removal
Managing application supersedence
Uninstalling the Excel Viewer application
Lab : Deploying virtual applications by using Configuration Manager (Optional)
Configuring support for App-V
Deploying virtual applications
Lab : Using Configuration Manager to deploy Windows Store apps
Configuring support for sideloading Windows Store apps
Configuring a Windows Store app
Deploying Windows 10 apps to users
Describe the application management features of Configuration Manager.
Create applications.
Deploy applications.
Manage applications.
Configure and deploy virtual applications.
Configure and deploy Windows Store apps.
This module explains how to use the software updates feature in Configuration Manager to implement an end-to-end management process for the complex task of identifying, deploying, and monitoring software updates to your Configuration Manager clients.
The software updates process
Preparing a Configuration Manager site for software updates
Managing software updates
Configuring automatic deployment rules
Monitoring and troubleshooting software updates
Lab : Configuring the site for software updates
Configuring and synchronizing the software update point
Lab : Deploying and managing software updates
Determining software update compliance
Deploying software updates to clients
Describe how the software updates feature integrates with Configuration Manager.
Prepare the Configuration Manager site for software updates.
Manage the evaluation and deployment of software updates.
Configure automatic deployment rules.
Monitor and troubleshoot software updates.
Configuration Manager provides a number of security-related features that you can use to help protect client computers from malware threats, and to configure specific Windows Firewall settings for clients. Based on System Center Endpoint Protection (Endpoint Protection) functionality, Endpoint Protection in Configuration Manager supports the deployment, management, and monitoring of antimalware policies and Windows Firewall settings on client computers. This module explains how to use configure Endpoint Protection Configuration Manager to implement Endpoint Protectionand deploy and monitor Endpoint Protection policies.
Overview of Endpoint Protection in Configuration Manager
Configuring, deploying, and monitoring Endpoint Protection policies
Lab : Implementing Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection
Configuring the System Center Endpoint Protection point and client settings
Configuring and deploying Endpoint Protection policies
Monitoring Endpoint Protection
Configure Endpoint Protection to detect and remediate malware and security vulnerabilities.
Configure, deploy, and manage Endpoint Protection policies.
Many enterprise organizations require systems, such as servers, laptops, desktop computers, and mobile devices, to meet specific configuration and compliance requirements. Compliance settings in Configuration Manager can play a key role in identifying existing configurations, discovering systems that have adverse configuration changes, and remediating these settings automatically when necessary. Compliance settings also can help control how users manage and access data in the enterprise network environment. For computers that run Windows 8 and newer operating systems, you can manage data using folder redirection, offline files, and roaming profiles. You also can control access to data using remote connection profiles, virtual private network (VPN) profiles, Wi-Fi profiles, and certificate profiles. This module describes the compliance settings that you can manage using Configuration Manager. You will learn to use these settings to maintain configuration requirements and to provide secure data access to enterprise resources.
Overview of Compliance Settings
Configuring compliance settings
Viewing compliance results
Managing resource and data access
Lab : Managing compliance settings
Managing configuration items and baselines
Viewing compliance settings and reports
Configuring remediation in compliance settings
Using compliance information to create collections
Describe compliance settings features.
Configure compliance settings.
View compliance results.
Manage resource and data access.
You can use the operating system deployment feature in Configuration Manager to create operating system images that you can deploy to unmanaged computers and those managed by Configuration Manager. There are several scenarios in which you can deploy operating systems by using Configuration Manager, including when you are working with new systems or when you are upgrading existing ones. Operating system deployment uses both Configuration Manager and Windows components to manage and deliver operating system images. You can configure settings on a reference computer prior to capturing an image of its operating system or by using task sequences that Configuration Manager creates after you deploy the image to a target system. This module explains how to use Configuration Manager to create a strategy for operating-system deployments. And also, it explains how to manage Windows as a service.
An overview of operating system deployment
Preparing a site for operating system deployment
Deploying an operating system
Managing Windows as a service
Lab : Preparing thea site for operating -system deployment
Managing the site system roles used to support operating system deployment
Managing packages to support operating system deployment
Lab : Deploying operating -system images for bare-metal installations
Preparing the operating system image
Creating a task sequence to deploy an image
Deploying an image
Describe the terminology, components, and scenarios used to deploy operating systems by using Configuration Manager.
Describe how to prepare a site for operating system deployment.
Describe the process used to deploy an operating system image.
This module explains how to use manage and maintain a Configuration Manager site. It describes role-based administration, Remote Tools, and the site maintenance tasks that you can manage by using Configuration Manager. Additionally, it explains how to back up and recover a Configuration Manager site system.
Configuring role-based administration
Configuring Remote Tools
Overview of Configuration Manager site maintenance
Backing up and recovering a Configuration Manager site
Lab : Configuring role-based administration
Configuring a new scope for Toronto administrators
Configuring a new administrative user
Lab : Configuring Remote Tools
Configuring the Remote Tools client settings and permissions
Managing desktops by using Remote Control
Lab : Maintaining a Configuration Manager site
Configuring maintenance tasks in Configuration Manager
Configuring the Backup Site Server task
Recovering a site from a backup
Configure role-based administration.
Configure Remote Tools to support client activity.
Identify Configuration Manager site Maintenance tasks.
Back up and recover a Configuration Manager site.
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