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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Cookbook

Over 60 applicable recipes to administer and manage System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch

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|Sep 2025
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Over 60 applicable recipes to administer and manage System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch

Key Features

  • Overcome the challenges of administering System Center Configuration Manager when deploying single and multiple-hierarchy sites
  • Help your organization to build a custom-line of business apps and also protect the server against malware threats with Endpoint protection
  • Get easy guidance and best practices to help you work with SCCM

Book Description

This practical cookbook is based on the 1602 current branch of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). It shows you how to administer SCCM, giving you an essential toolbox of techniques to solve real-world scenarios. Packed with over 60 task-based and instantly usable recipes, you’ll discover how design a SCCM Infrastructure, and dive into topics such as the recommended SQL configuration for SCCM and how to deploy Windows 10 with Operating System Deployment (OSD).
You will learn to easily manage Windows 10 devices by deploying applications, software updates, and feature upgrades, andl be able to leverage Mobile Device Management (MDM) using SCCM and Microsoft Intune. Finally, you see how to gather the inventory of all your PC park and create reports based on it. By the end of the book, you will have learned the best practices when working with SCCM and have a handy reference guide for troubleshooting.

What you will learn

  • * Administer System Center Configuration Manager
  • * Upgrade computers from Windows 7/ 8.x to Windows 10, using Serivce Plans to keep Windows 10 machines up to date
  • * Manage Compliance Settings effectively and monitor it with SSRS
  • * Manage Sites in System Center Configuration Manager and also learn to create collections, leverage role-based administration (RBA), and support clients over the internet without a VPN connection
  • * Implement multiple methods to deploy the client, as well as how to be proactive in monitoring client agent health
  • * Achieve Mobile device management with Microsoft Intune

Who this book is for

If you are an intermediate to advanced administrator who wants to administer SCCM and understand how to solve particular problems/scenarios, then this book is for you. You should have a working knowledge of SCCM, however, knowledge of the latest version is not required.

Table of Contents

  1. Designing a System Center Configuration Manager
  2. Deploying Windows 10 with Operating System Deployment
  3. Deploying Applications, Software Updates and Feature Upgrades
  4. Managing Compliance Settings
  5. Managing Mobile Devices using Configuration Manager combined with Microsoft Intune
  6. Managing Sites
  7. Managing Clients
  8. Managing Inventory
  9. Managing Reports and Queries
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78588-037-7
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 354