1. A Tour of System Center Configuration Manager Adam Duffy Edina Public Schools

2. What is SCCM?  A systems management product by Microsoft  Manages large groups of Windows computers  Used to be Systems Management Server (SMS), first released in 1994

3. What can you do with SCCM?  Remote management  Patch management  Software distribution  Operating system deployment  Hardware and software inventory  Reports and queries

5. Why did we start with SCCM?  Forefront Endpoint Protection  Our version of Altiris didn’t support Windows 7

6. Getting started with SCCM  Get help  A few AD changes  Windows server(s)  SQL database  Management console  SCCM client

7. Some basic terms  Collection  Package  Advertisement

8. Software packages  We currently have 230 packages  MSI installers easily converted to package  Build custom solutions  Lots of resources available  Packages don’t have to be full programs

10. Advertisements  Can push out software to collections as we choose  Users can easily install software as needed

13. Forefront Endpoint Protection  Deploy the Forefront Endpoint Protection client as a software package  Can push out policies

15. Operating System Deployment  Power and flexibility in task sequences  Custom settings based on computer model  Our current OSD process  Base image  Updates  Software and tweaks  Thick image or thin image

17. Drivers  23 models of computers that will run Windows 7  Built-in detection problematic  Third party tools

18. Reports / Queries  Gather information about your systems  Build collections

21. Remote Management Tools  Consolidates multiple tools in one place  Remote desktop  Quick access to C: share and log files  Resource Explorer  Remote command prompt

23. And More  Hardware and software inventory  Software updates  Network Access Protection

24. When things go wrong  Log files, log files, log files  One computer, 83 log files, 96,786 lines

25. Problems with SCCM  Some things are slow  Unintuitive terms  Designed for large organizations  Steep learning curve

26. Other Tools / Resources  User groups  SCCM for Education User Group  MNSCUG  Right Click Tools  Trace32 (now CMTrace.exe)  Orca  AdminStudio  IT Ninja

27. SCCM 2012  Improved administrator interface  User Centric Management  Role-Based Administration  And more!

29. Questions?  adaduffy@edina.k12.mn.us  952-848-4993