Microsoft 70-243 Administering & Deploying System Center2012

Explore the course overview for the System Center Configuration Manager, outline the training methodology, and guide you in building a hands-on lab to master chapters, collections, sites, and exam-ready skills.

Set up a hands-on lab to test Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 2012, install System Center Configuration Manager, and configure boundaries, sites, and Windows 8 clients.

Explore the course details overview for configuring and deploying System Center Configuration Manager, with hands-on demos, lab setups, and guidance on setting up clients, reports, and queries to automate tasks.

Explore chapter two and preview chapter three in Microsoft 70-243, building a hands-on lab with Windows 8, 2012, and clients like Windows 7 to master Configuration Manager concepts.

Trace the history of System Center and Configuration Manager, preview the eight components, and note the Service Pack 1 features, with Configuration Manager as the course focus.

Trace the System Center server product family and Configuration Manager from early roots to 2012, highlighting site concepts and user centric management.

Explore Microsoft System Center 2012 on the server and cloud platform, review a public transportation success story, and learn to automate it processes, manage clients, and secure the datacenter.

Explore Microsoft System Center 2012 to understand cloud options, private deployments, and how Configuration Manager supports thousands of machines across Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix, and mixed operating systems.

Explore Configuration Manager and related System Center components, including App Controller for self-service administration, remediation, and inventory-driven deployment across private and public cloud environments.

Explore how Microsoft System Center centralizes endpoint protection with Forefront Endpoint Protection, Orchestrator, Data Protection Manager, and Operations Manager, plus Service Manager and ITIL.

Explore configuring and managing virtual machines with Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager, and building shared libraries to deploy virtual machines in private or public cloud data centers.

Explore the beta service pack 1 from September 2012 and review Microsoft’s 35-page white paper, highlighting Windows 8 integration as a key new element.

Explore the history of System Center and its role in automating and managing large enterprise environments. Then dive into Configuration Manager and how to leverage automation for systems.

Explore System Center Configuration Manager, covering assets, deployment, compliance, and security. Navigate the console's workspaces and ribbons, then preview the built CM environment, sites, hierarchies, and search features.

Learn how Configuration Manager automates daily system tasks, manages clients and servers through collections and sites, and centralizes software deployment, asset inventory, and remediation.

Learn how discovery drives asset management by identifying hardware and software, tracking versions and licensing with asset intelligence, and enabling remote control and usage reporting for smarter IT governance.

Explore Configuration Manager features for end-to-end deployments, including operating system deployment, image management and testing, application deployment and updates, monitoring, approval, and content held in shares and repositories.

Explore Configuration Manager’s compliance management by ensuring machines meet health levels, track compliance, remediate to Windows 7/8 and Office 2010 with service packs, and apply power management to reduce costs.

Explore configuration manager security features, including endpoint protection, health validation with nap integration, and role-based administration, for precise permissions and ongoing reporting and monitoring.

Explore the Configuration Manager Console, navigate assets in compliance, software library, and monitoring workspaces, and learn how discovery, collections, packages, updates, and admin tasks drive deployment and administration.

Explore the configuration manager console in System Center 2012 on Windows Server 2008, navigating assets, software, monitoring, and administration, configuring boundaries and boundary groups, discovery methods, and monitoring alerts.

Demonstrates application management in the cm console, creating and importing packages, applying approval requests and global conditions, and organizing assets, users, devices, and collections to deploy patches and monitor compliance.

Demonstrates using the Configuration Manager console to search assets in compliance, save targeted searches, and explore object types from hardware inventory to software packages.

Explore the Configuration Manager console in depth, drill into its parts, set up key areas, and apply changes to configurations and settings for daily interaction.

Explore the configuration manager overview, deployment, compliance, and security features, review the console's software library, monitoring, and configuration manager administration, and navigate site hierarchy with site roles.

Explore the Configuration Manager hierarchy and sites, and learn how to deploy core and optional roles to support enterprise infrastructure, followed by a step-by-step installation guide with prerequisites.

Explore hierarchy and sites in Configuration Manager, designing primary and secondary sites, a central administration site, and a scalable topology that optimizes data flow and replication.

navigate primary sites in configuration manager, from standalone setups to parent-child hierarchies, and scale to 50,000 users or 100,000 with an external server.

Explore how secondary sites connect to primary sites in System Center 2012, including bandwidth management, local database options, and the central administration site's role in enterprise administration and reporting.

Explore the primary site architecture in System Center 2012, including standalone primaries, optional secondaries, two-way client communication, and central administration across the hierarchy.

Explore the core roles of configuration manager—site server, component server, site system, site database server, and sm provider—and how they connect to sql databases and distribution points.

Explore core and optional roles in Configuration Manager design, including management points, distribution points, content distribution, and validation, with enrollment, endpoint protection, and application catalog considerations.

Explore optional roles in Configuration Manager, including application catalog, asset intelligence with its synchronization point and PKI security and certificates, and enrollment point proxy for mobile devices and endpoint protection.

Configure and manage optional roles in a System Center 2012 environment, including fallback status point, reporting services point, and software update point, to support client deployments and reporting.

Discover state migration points and user state migration for operating system deployments, including side-by-side upgrades, and how system health validator points with network access protection enforce remediation.

The prerequisite checker verifies server readiness for Configuration Manager on System Center, guiding complex pre-install checks—from Active Directory schema extensions and permissions to firewall and site database prerequisites—before installation.

Explore Configuration Manager pre-installation requirements for System Center 2012, including hardware, software prerequisites, and key site components like management point, distribution point, and 64-bit OS support.

Explore configuration manager pre-installation requirements, including site server and database server roles, essential hardware, and dot net framework 3.5 and 4.0, plus wcf and rdc for slow links.

Learn Configuration Manager pre-installation requirements for System Center 2012, including service packs, cumulative updates, ports, and Active Directory schema extensions. Also covers upgrade paths and backup reminders.

Navigate prerequisites for Configuration Manager, including software, hardware, and role-based or standalone requirements. See how moving from 2007 to 2012 simplifies setup, and preview pre-installation and post-configuration tasks in demo.

Set up configuration manager prerequisites by extending Active Directory schema, assigning roles, and verifying server features, memory allocation, and required .NET and IIS components before installing configuration manager.

Extend the active directory schema on the domain controller using the configuration manager 2012 tools, verify success in the log, and create containers with adsI edit for pre-installation.

Create the system management container in Active Directory with exact spelling, grant the server full control, and verify prerequisites before installing Configuration Manager.

Run the configuration manager prerequisites check using the pre-req checker, explore its command-line options, and verify WMI connections, memory requirements, and warnings before deployment.

This lecture walks through installing configuration manager, setting up a primary site within a broader hierarchy, and completing prerequisites, AD schema extension, and language options for server and client.

Set up a standalone primary configuration manager site with a unique site code, verify port, SQL database, and distribution and management points, ensuring proper permissions and site name conventions.

Install Configuration Manager 2012 as a standalone primary site, review the installation log and prerequisite checks, then complete post-configuration tasks and monitor site status and components.

Install configuration manager, configure memory by setting minimum and maximum server memory, review pre-req checks, language packs, verify installation success, and preview boundaries, discovery, and initial configuration on primary site.

Review the prerequisites, installation steps, and console setup for configuration manager, and explore single-machine versus distributed roles, primaries, secondaries, and core components before CME installation.

Learn to map enterprise resources into configuration manager using boundaries, boundary groups, and sites. Explore discovery methods to bring clients into the system and complete post-install tasks.

Discover how to identify clients and resources in Configuration Manager, organize them into a primary site, and apply discovery and boundary groups to group machines for scalable management.

Explore Active Directory discovery in Configuration Manager, including system, forest, user, and group discoveries, plus network and heartbeat discoveries, with DDR files loaded into the database.

Enable active directory forest discovery in configuration manager and automatically create site and IP address boundaries, schedule weekly discovery, and run a full discovery to populate the domain inventory.

Enable and configure active directory system discovery to scan specified containers (including Toronto), set polling schedules, and verify discovery status and discovered attributes like names, IDs, and groups.

Explore how to discover Active Directory objects in System Center by viewing client properties, site names, discovery methods, and IP addresses to map users and groups.

Master Active Directory discovery methods in System Center 2012 by setting up discovery to gather initial information and keeping the container running for ongoing use.

Group devices into boundaries and boundary groups to automate site assignments in Configuration Manager, using IP address ranges, IP client, Active Directory, IPv6 prefixes, and distribution points.

Configure boundaries and boundary groups in configuration manager by creating a remote boundary from a subnet and associating it with a boundary group for site assignment and content location services.

Explore configuring discovery, boundaries, and boundary groups in Configuration Manager to assign clients to sites and manage content delivery and post-installation tasks.

Rename the default site in Active Directory Sites and Services to New York, create a subnet, and enable active forest discovery to auto-create site boundaries in Configuration Manager.

Create a boundary group for New York clients, perform a discovery to bind boundaries, and configure site configuration manager roles with a fallback status point and a reporting services point.

Set up management and distribution points for Configuration Manager, enforce no anonymous connections, and configure site boundaries, fallback status point, and reporting services point, with Pixi for pre-stage content.

Review boundary concepts, discovery methods, and boundary groups within Configuration Manager, and prepare to organize clients into collections in the next chapter.

Explore collections and inventory in Configuration Manager, starting with boundaries and discovery to organize a logical site. Learn to create manual collections to gather inventory and later explore dynamic collections.

Define and manage collections in Configuration Manager by grouping machines by attributes rather than location, enabling targeted software deployment, updates, and user- or device-based actions.

Set maintenance windows to define when deployments and updates may run on devices, with some devices qualifying for multiple windows and exceptions handled outside these windows.

Learn to create and configure device collections in Configuration Manager, use limiting collections, and define membership rules with Active Directory queries to target Windows 7 devices in Toronto, Canada.

Create a user collection in configmgr, filter by location (Canada, Toronto), exclude New York, add membership rules with incremental updates, and configure a maintenance window.

Define and configure a maintenance window for app deployments, setting daily, recurring windows from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. and adding device and user groups for targeted software pushes.

Explore the collection concepts in maintenance window setup, focusing on user-related and device-related collections, and preview other collection types in System Center 2012.

Discover how inventory collections turn raw data into hardware and software inventory. Use discovery, WMI collection, and the CM client to build asset intelligence and enable software metering.

Explore how inventory data from agents feeds the site server and Configuration Manager, enabling hardware and software inventories, customizable queries, and handling increasing data volumes.

Explore hardware and software inventory, including the initial full pull by the inventory agent, delta updates on a regular schedule, and full pulls after site or client changes.

Discover how configuration manager inventories hardware and software, recognizes diverse software types, and filters by operating systems and updates. Automate inventory cycles, review logs, and translate results into asset intelligence.

Configure hardware and software inventory with default and custom settings, schedule scans, and apply targeted inventory classes for Windows 8 devices to support asset intelligence.

Configure and deploy inventory for Windows 7 workstations by prioritizing hardware and software inventory, enabling software inventory, and scheduling scans every five days.

Review how discovery and inventory build user and device collections, set maintenance windows, and manage data flow in System Center 2012 as you ramp toward the next chapter.

Explore collections, queries, and asset intelligence in Configuration Manager, learn how to build collections from queries, gather data, and understand query basics with practical examples.

Extend data and reporting with asset intelligence in configuration manager to make raw hardware and software data easier to understand while leveraging the catalog by families and categories.

Analyze asset data to identify the product, version, vendor, category, and usage metering for licensing. Assess hardware requirements such as minimum RAM and processor to understand enterprise deployment.

Learn how to prepare and perform asset data gathering in System Center 2012 by enabling hardware inventory, software metering, inventory reporting classes, and configuring license inputs and asset intelligence synchronization.

Demonstrates asset intelligence gathering by showcasing hardware and software inventory, collections, queries, and client installation within Configuration Manager, using Resource Explorer to inspect a monitored virtual machine.

Explore asset intelligence and hardware inventory through Configuration Manager reports and subscriptions, drill down into disk information, partitions, and client-specific inventories for actionable insights.

Configure configuration manager defaults and enforce group policy object audit settings to ensure software inventory, software metering, and asset intelligence track all inventory classes, including the browser helper object.

Configure the asset intelligence synchronization point, set a seven-day schedule, and create a software category and software family within asset intelligence for customized apps.

In pre-query setup part 3, import the customer license statement as a csv or general license file, then run machine retrieval and review asset intelligence reports.

Set parameters to populate all collections and run reports across systems, tracking administrator login, licensing, and inventory. Explore asset intelligence and licensing with deeper queries.

Discover how asset intelligence cleans inventory data into formats and build WMI query language queries to extract machines meeting Office 2010 SP1 on Windows 7 for upgrades to Windows 8.

Explore how to build and refine Configuration Manager queries by selecting object types, attributes, and criteria, using boolean logic and joins, then save and convert them into collections for automation.

Learn to set up and test data queries in Configuration Manager, using Active Directory groups, monitoring, and query criteria to extract user and system data.

Create and test data queries by editing query statements, applying criteria, and using and/or logic to filter users by resource group names such as marketing, IT, and the research team.

Enable Active Directory group discovery, run and refine data queries in Configuration Manager, and drill down into group membership to accurately report users across marketing and domain groups.

Create and customize status message queries to retrieve component and site-specific status data, export and edit query statements, and preview results for later reporting.

Learn to create status queries in the Microsoft 70-243 course, moving from basics to hands-on practice and tweaking results to retrieve data and take action.

Explore asset intelligence as the enhanced data layer and learn how to gather and query data. Practice customizing queries to reveal insights across asset families and categories from database objects.

Explore deploying and managing the Configuration Manager client across Windows hosts, covering client settings, monitoring, deployments, discoveries, inventories, assets, and server and operating system perspectives.

Learn how the configuration manager client runs on laptops, desktops, servers, and mobile devices across XP to Windows 8, enabling centralized management, patching, reporting, and compliance.

Deploy the Configuration Manager client to desktops across supported operating systems per minimum specs, then monitor internal and internet-based clients and manage deployments and updates with PKI infrastructure.

Learn how the CM client, control panel applet, and software center enable deployment, inventory, and self-service software requests. Understand how maintenance windows and GPO precedence shape updates and approvals.

Explore the configuration manager client properties on the client machine, showing the tab-by-tab steps and a quick peek at the server side later.

Verify device reporting in configuration manager by viewing assets and compliance, selecting devices, and pushing the client install from the site server, noting firewall, distribution point, and management point dependencies.

Verify the configuration manager client installation by monitoring the CMS setup process in task manager, watching for process name changes, and waiting for completion before collecting data from the machine.

Set up a fallback status point during pre-installation tasks to monitor client deployment, identify unmanaged clients, and configure alerts in site configuration and hierarchy settings.

Create and link a group policy object for client installations, configure software deployment via computer policy, and deploy the configuration manager client using CM push or a GPO.

Explore configuring the configuration manager client on Windows 7 and server-side deployment settings, and pushing deployments via GPO or Configuration Manager.

Extend the Active Directory schema to enable seamless integration with configuration manager and site systems, then deploy the client via push or script and monitor with logs.

Explore deployment options in configuration manager, including client push and group policy, configure when the client installs, and use software updates, image deployments, and phased AD deployments.

Inspect the Configuration Manager client on a Windows 7 machine, review the general tab’s site code, unique ID, and management point, and explore component status, policy retrieval, and baselines.

Explore client and server side properties in System Center 2012, perform immediate policy and software change checks, and learn how to tweak polling and configuration settings for targeted troubleshooting.

Coordinate deployment with Configuration Manager by initiating pushes, anticipate time requirements even in powerful environments, and schedule deployments via GPO to run while you're away.

Manage mobile devices with Configuration Manager, supporting Windows Mobile 6.0+ and Windows CE 5.0–6.0, including ActiveSync and Nokia Symbian. Enable user- or device-based deployments and demonstrate server-side client settings.

Learn to configure client settings in configuration manager, create a direct membership device collection for New York clients, adjust default and custom policies, enable or disable metering, and deploy changes.

Explore Configuration Manager client settings part 2: apply and verify custom client settings, trigger machine policy retrieval and evaluation, observe status changes, and compare custom versus default settings.

Learn how configuration manager monitors real-time client health using health evaluator and SML reports, and access in-console alerts and reports for compliance, remediation, and status across devices.

Monitor client status and health in Configuration Manager, adjust monitoring frequency and history, and run the health evaluation to review client check results and last check-in within a five-day window.

Monitor devices and collections in configuration manager by tracking client checks, activity, and evaluations, set alerts and thresholds for client status and remediation, and configure services to respond to issues.

Configure client monitoring in Microsoft Configuration Manager to assess health with the health evaluator, test auto remediation, and validate service states via the task scheduler.

Deploy and manage the client by reviewing installation steps, settings, and monitoring, including deployment methods like GPO, and by examining reports, alerts, and ongoing maintenance.

Explore software packaging in configuration manager, from traditional packaging to applications and application virtualization. Learn deployment, distribution, packaging programs, and using the deploy configuration wizard with demos.

Explore the evolution of software deployment from CDs and network shares to agent‑driven push via configuration manager, including OS deployment, antivirus updates, and user‑centric delivery.

Learn to package applications for deployment, decide between local or virtual copies, and leverage deployment options and conditions in System Center 2012, including App Catalog integration.

Automate software distribution using configuration manager, leveraging multiple deployment methods, distribution points, and zero-touch control to track, report, and manage mass installations.

Explore software packaging, including files, registries, and dependencies wrapped into installers. Compare tools like wise, install shield, and windows installer used for enterprise deployment.

Learn to package software with Windows installer MSI, create one or more applications within a package, and configure properties for deployment, distribution, and end-user installation.

Explore how packages encapsulate one or more programs, with standard and 'no program' types, and how to manage dependencies, rights, and silent install switches for automated deployments.

Choose distribution point locations to place software packages, whether at a single corporate site or multiple near users, and define package files with name, version, and access rights.

Learn to create and push software packages from distribution points to desktops in System Center 2012, manage dependencies, use maintenance windows, and deploy via collections.

Set up a software distribution component from site configuration, ensure network access and client accounts, and prepare client settings and reporting with required distribution and management points.

Explore the deployment configuration wizard in Configuration Manager to manage software packages, distribution points, wake on LAN, scheduling, branch cache, fallback status points, and monitoring with software distribution reports.

Explains how the client agent retrieves policies from the management point, downloads packages from the distribution point via bits, and uses the local cache with Software Center options.

Kick off by setting prerequisites and tweaking client settings to explore the distribution point component, then build a package, add a program, and run it on the demo machine.

Set up a distribution point in configuration manager and configure software distribution, site components, and package properties. Adjust client settings, deadlines, reminders, and network access credentials to streamline deployment.

Create and manage packages in Configuration Manager to deploy software, create an initial program, and configure a distribution point, exploring software libraries and application management in chapters 11 and 12.

Create and manage packages by adding standard programs like Vizio viewer and PowerPoint viewer, configure quiet installs with administrative rights, and enable pre-staged distribution points with binary differential replication.

Learn software packaging basics and deployment concepts with MSCI tools for discovery, differencing, and packaging. Explore newer approaches Microsoft focuses on, emphasizing flexible administration through software applications and distribution points.