configmgr 2012 - deploying & managing clients

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About Me

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Agenda

Client

DeploymentClient Health

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Agenda

Client

Deployment

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Platform Support - WindowsC

lien

ts • Windows XP SP3

• Windows Vista SP2

• Windows 7

• Windows 8

Serv

ers • Windows Server 2003 SP2

• Windows Server 2008 SP2

• Windows Server 2008 R2

SP2

• Windows Server 2012

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Platform Support – Non-MS

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) (version 4, 5 and 6)

• Solaris (Version 9 and 10)

• SUSE Linux Ent Server (SLES) (version 9, 10 SP1 and 11)

Unix / Linux

• Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

• Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

• Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)

MacOSX

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Deployment Methods Overview

New Clients

SUP-based installation

Group Policy

Startup Scripts

Client Push

Manual Installation

Existing Clients

Upgrade using SWD

Automatic Client Upgrade

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SUP Based Installation

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Group Policy

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Logon/Startup Scripts

http://blog.configmgrftw.com/?page_id=349

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Client Push

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Client Push (2)

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Client Push (3)

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Manual Installation

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CCMSetup.exe

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg699356.aspx

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CCMSetup.exe example

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Client.msi

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg699356.aspx

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Client Lifecycle

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Client Installation troubleshooting

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Things to consider ...

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Client Health

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Client Health - Overview

Monitored from the Server

Monitored from the Client

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Client Health - Components

Client Check

• Independent agent

• Single install

• Auto-Remediation

• Prerequisites

• Dependencies

• Services

• WMI

• Viewable by collection

Client Activity

• Track server activity• DDR

• SINV

• HINV

• Status messages

• Policy requests

• State Messages

• Viewable by collection

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Client Activity - Settings

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Client Check

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Client Check – Client Health Tool

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Client Check – Installation properties

Property Details

/NotifyOnly Specifies that client status will report, but not

remediate problems that are found with the

Configuration Manager client.

Property Details

CCMEVALINTERVAL Specifies the frequency when the client health

evaluation tool (ccmeval.exe) runs. You can specify

a value from 1 through 1440 minutes. If you do not

specify this property, or specify an incorrect value,

the evaluation will run once a day.

CCMEVALHOUR Specify the hour when the client health evaluation

tool (ccmeval.exe) runs. You can specify a value

between 0 (midnight) and 23 (11pm). If you do not

specify this property, or specify and incorrect value,

the evaluation will run at midnight.

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Client Check - Structure

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Client Check – Remediation Capabilities (1)

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Client Check – Remediation Capabilities (2)

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Client Check – Remediation Capabilities (3)

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Client Health - Dashboards

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Client Health - Alerts

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Client Health - Reporting

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Q & A

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Next steps

Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us

/server-cloud/system-center/default.aspx

• Virtual Machine Manager

• Operations Manager

• Orchestrator

• Service Manager

• Data Protection Manager

• Configuration Manager

System Center Marketplace:

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.

microsoft.com

Blogs:

http://blogs.technet.com

/systemcenter

Community:

http://scug.be/

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