SCCM/MECM Administration - Be an 'Expert'!

Learn how configuration manager replaces manual spreadsheets with automated asset, software, and operating system deployments, while tracking changes and enabling scalable hierarchies like standalone primary sites and central administration sites.

Learn how client assignments determine the configuration manager primary site that manages a client, including manual site assignment and automatic site assignment based on boundaries with fallback sites.

Understand boundaries and boundary groups in configuration manager, including ip subnet, ad site, and ipv6 prefix. Boundaries do not manage clients; they require a boundary group for site assignment.

Install the database engine services as the core for storing and securing data. Enable reporting services for reports and integrate Cesium rules with management tools via setup to install prerequisites.

Launch the SCCM setup, verify remaining prerequisites, fix WSUS-related rules and features, configure WSUS to store updates, and verify the WSUS configuration.

Enable the Active Directory forest discovery method to use network locations configured in Active Directory to define site boundaries; it isn't enabled by default and supports automatic creation when discovered.

Learn how IP discovery works in heartbeat discovery, including default-enabled discovery by TCM, how to access properties, and how the inventory agent tracks this method.

Execute the upgrade from 1702 to 1802 with prerequisite checks and monitor progress; apply required configurations for automatic upgrade and post-upgrade steps.

Upgrade SCCM/MECM from 1802 to 1810, upgrading the SDK to support the new version, then upgrade the boot images for a complete SCCM/MECM upgrade.

Plan and install a secondary site in SCCM/MECM to optimize content distribution for remote locations with 500–5000 clients, including prerequisites, firewall ports, local management point, and verification.

Install a full secondary site in the SCCM/MECM lab by configuring prerequisites, fixing warnings for remote differential compression and other missing features, and validating content and replication across sites.

Create and deploy an application in sccm/mecm by downloading binaries, validating prerequisites, configuring an unc path, setting dependencies and registry checks, and distributing with catalog visibility and verification.

Sequence and package the VRC Media Player using app sequencer, verify shortcut presence and size, install, capture registry and service details, customize targets, and save the package for deployment.