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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.