System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Unleashed

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This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007!

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Unleashed is a comprehensive guide to System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007. ConfigMgr 2007 helps you manage servers and desktops, integrates SMS 2003 “feature pack” functionality, and adds new capabilities. It enables you to assess, deploy, and update servers, clients, and devices across physical, virtual, distributed, and mobile environments, including clients that connect only over the Internet. This book guides you through designing, deploying, and configuring ConfigMgr 2007 with detailed information on topics such as capacity planning, security, site design and hierarchy planning, server placement, discovery, native mode, and using Windows Server 2008. You will learn how to tackle challenges such as setting up DCM and OSD, customizing inventory, creating queries and using query results, and configuring asset intelligence.

Detailed information on how to…

•  Understand how ConfigMgr works

•  Plan your ConfigMgr deployment

•  Manage Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

•  Architect for performance

•  Install or migrate to ConfigMgr 2007 with Windows 2003 or Windows 2008

•  Discover and manage clients

•  Create and distribute packages

•  Understand patch and compliance management

•  Create queries

•  Use reports

•  Deploy operating systems

•  Secure ConfigMgr 2007

•  Perform site maintenance

•  Back up ConfigMgr components

What Customers Say About System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Unleashed:

It's really speaks for its title Unleashed. A couple of months ago I bought this ConfigMgr book, I didn't have high expectation about this book because a lot of the technical books you buy these days doesn't contains so much new information that you couldn't find on TechNet and other Internet forums. But to my surprise it's a fantastic book with a lot of deep technical drilldown in for example SQL stored procedures etc, but it also contains easy to understand description of the features as well as Microsoft System Management history. I can really recommend this book for the hardcore ConfigMgr veterans as well as newbie's. All companies that are using ConfigMgr should have it on the bookshelf as a reference.

My focus has been on operating System Deployment(OSD) , this book provided a lot of answers and a wealth of additional information towards understanding the complexities of OSD. I'd like to give a shout out to Jason Sandys for his contribution to this book, his blog and knowledge of Operating Systems Deployment has been a major helpThanks Jason, and all the members who put this excellent book together

A re-write or a reorganization is needed. Its terrible if you just want to get to know how to deploy Configmgr quickly.

I bought this book and the MS press book in preparation for doing this. I've been in this business for a long time, and have been wanting to deploy the MS System Center Configuration Manager.

This book is probably ok as a reference. The MS press book is on backorder.

Lets just hope its a better read than this doorstop. IT DRONES ON AND ON.Please, I'd like to know who propagated the myth that we IT types like to read disorganzied drivel.

Its not a fun read.

The book is not very practical to read, the way they have the chapters doesn't make any sense and it's not very helpful if you are setting up SCCM for the first time. I had to spend some time doing extra research to install.I would buy the Microsoft Press Book or one that helps you setup and manage Config Manager.

Reading through this book, I get the impression some real love and care when into writing it.I think OSD get short-shrifted again. This is the third Configmgr-centric book on the market. Not nearly as bad as in the MS and Sybex books, but still gets less attention than it deserves. And they finally got it right. While the previous books (from Sybex and Microsoft) were passible, they weren't a real **deep dive** into the app. That said, its a minor quibble.Being an SCCM admin for a company with 48k+ desktops and servers, I've been waiting for a good ConfigMgr reference guide. "SCCM2007 Unleashed" sits right in between my laptop and my monitor.