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Are You Ready for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager?

Wally Mead, The Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Expert 7 December 2011

Moderated by: Sponsored by:

Agenda

• Welcome: Rod Trent, CEO, myITforum • Overview: BDNA & myITforum •

Wally Mead, Microsoft

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Are You Ready for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager?

• Wrap Up: Rod Trent, CEO, myITforum ̶ 2012 SCCM GURU Webcasts ̶ Winner(s?) of the SCCM Guru T-shirt Contest

Google+ Hangouts & Forums

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Reed Porter’s Hangout:

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welcome

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myITforum SCCM GURU webcast live forum

http://myITforum.com/SCCMguru

BDNA Normalize for ConfigMgr™

Walker White CTO, B|DNA

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ConfigMgr

myITforum

Rod Trent, CEO, myITforum

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All things “System Center” Since 1999 Large and growing community (over 120,000 visitors a day)

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Huge storehouse of System Center knowledge

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Noobies to experts

Wally Mead Bio

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Been with Microsoft since 1992 Worked with Systems Management Server (now Configuration Manager) since 1994 Work with TAP customers to help test pre release versions of Configuration Manager 2012 Help support the community, and ‘manage’ the Configuration Manager MVPs

Configuration Manager 2012

Empower Users Unify Infrastructure Simplify Administration Empower people to be productive from anywhere on whatever device they choose Device freedom Optimized, personalized application experience Application self-service Reduce costs by unifying IT management infrastructure Mobile, physical, and virtual management Security and compliance Service management integration Improve IT effectiveness and efficiency Comprehensive client management capabilities Improved administrator effectiveness Reduced infrastructure complexity

Reducing Primary Sites

Unique ConfigMgr 2007 Primary Site for:

Decentralized administration Logical data segmentation Client settings Language Content routing for deep hierarchies

ConfigMgr 2012 solutions (no unique primary sites):

Role Based Administration Role Based Administration Client settings for the hierarchy and unique collections Language packs Secondary Sites or Distribution Points

Infrastructure Changes: Content

• ONE Distribution Point – PXE Service Point – Increased scalability beyond the ConfigMgr 2007 limit of 75 PXE service points per site – Multicast option – Throttling and scheduling of content to that location – Pre-stage of content and specify specific drives for storage • Improved Distribution Point Groups – Manage content distribution to individual Distribution Points or Groups – Content automatically added or removed from Distribution Points based on Group membership – Associate Distribution Point Groups with a collections to automate content staging for software targeted to the collection • No Branch DPs - DPs can be installed on clients and servers now

Minimum System Requirements: Component

Site Server and Site Roles Database Distribution Point Client Admin Console

Minimum Requirement

Windows Server 2008 (64-bit ) Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) SQL Server 2008 SP2 & Cumulative Update 6 (64-bit) & KB2603910 SQL Server 2008 R2 with SP 1 & Cumulative Update 3 (64-bit) & KB2603910 (when available) Windows Server 2003 (including 32-bit) with limited functionality Windows Vista SP2 and later (including 32-bit) Windows XP SP2 & SP3 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 2003 Server SP2 (32-bit & 64-bit) Vista SP2 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 7 RTM & SP 1 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 2008 SP2 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 2008 R2 RTM & SP 1 (64-bit) Vista SP2 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 7 RTM & SP 1 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 2008 SP2 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 2008 R2 RTM & SP 1 (64-bit)

Prepare for Configuration Manager 2012

• Flatten hierarchy where possible • Plan for Windows Server 2008, SQL 2008, and 64-bit • Start implementing BranchCache™ with Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 • Move from web reporting to SQL Reporting Services • Avoid mixing user and devices in collection definitions • Use UNC (\\server\myapp\myapp.msi) in package source path instead of local path (d:\myapp)

Demonstration

• Will do a quick tour of the new Configuration Manager 2012 console • Will show a few new features of interest

Questions for Wally?

For more information… BDNA

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BDNA Normalize CM

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myITforum

Rod Trent [email protected]

+1 (513) 217-7122

Wrap Up

Next SCCM GURU Webcast:

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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Reed Porter

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