Are You Ready for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager?

Wally Mead, The Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Expert

7 December 2011
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Agenda
Welcome: Rod Trent, CEO, myITforum Overview: BDNA & myITforum Wally Mead, Microsoft
Are You Ready for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager?

Wrap Up: Rod Trent, CEO, myITforum

2012 SCCM GURU Webcasts Winner(s?) of the SCCM Guru T-shirt Contest

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BDNA Normalize for ConfigMgr

Walker White
CTO, B|DNA

ConfigMgr

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myITforum
Rod Trent, CEO, myITforum
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Wally Mead Bio

Been with Microsoft since 1992 Worked with Systems Management Server (now Configuration Manager) since 1994 Work with TAP customers to help test prerelease versions of Configuration Manager 2012 Help support the community, and manage the Configuration Manager MVPs

Configuration Manager 2012

Empower Users Unify Infrastructure Simplify Administration

Empower people to be productive from anywhere on whatever device they choose

Reduce costs by unifying IT management infrastructure

Mobile, physical, and virtual management Security and compliance Service management integration

Improve IT effectiveness and efficiency

Comprehensive client management capabilities Improved administrator effectiveness Reduced infrastructure complexity

Device freedom Optimized, personalized application experience Application self-service

Reducing Primary Sites

Unique ConfigMgr 2007 Primary Site for: ConfigMgr 2012 solutions (no unique primary sites):

Decentralized administration
Logical data segmentation Client settings

Role Based Administration

Role Based Administration Client settings for the hierarchy and unique collections Language packs Secondary Sites or Distribution Points

Language Content routing for deep hierarchies

Infrastructure Changes: Content

ONE Distribution Point
PXE Service Point Increased scalability beyond the ConfigMgr 2007 limit of 75 PXE service points per site Multicast option Throttling and scheduling of content to that location Pre-stage of content and specify specific drives for storage Improved Distribution Point Groups Manage content distribution to individual Distribution Points or Groups Content automatically added or removed from Distribution Points based on Group membership Associate Distribution Point Groups with a collections to automate content staging for software targeted to the collection

No Branch DPs - DPs can be installed on clients and servers now

Minimum System Requirements:

Component Site Server and Site Roles Database Minimum Requirement Windows Server 2008 (64-bit ) Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) SQL Server 2008 SP2 & Cumulative Update 6 (64-bit) & KB2603910 SQL Server 2008 R2 with SP 1 & Cumulative Update 3 (64-bit) & KB2603910 (when available) Windows Server 2003 (including 32-bit) with limited functionality Windows Vista SP2 and later (including 32-bit) Windows XP SP2 & SP3 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 2003 Server SP2 (32-bit & 64-bit) Vista SP2 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 7 RTM & SP 1 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 2008 SP2 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 2008 R2 RTM & SP 1 (64-bit) Vista SP2 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 7 RTM & SP 1 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 7 SP1 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 2008 SP2 (32-bit & 64-bit) Windows 2008 R2 RTM & SP 1 (64-bit)

Distribution Point Client

Admin Console

Prepare for Configuration Manager 2012

Flatten hierarchy where possible Plan for Windows Server 2008, SQL 2008, and 64-bit Start implementing BranchCache with Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Move from web reporting to SQL Reporting Services Avoid mixing user and devices in collection definitions Use UNC (\\server\myapp\myapp.msi) in package source path instead of local path (d:\myapp)

Demonstration
Will do a quick tour of the new Configuration Manager 2012 console Will show a few new features of interest

Questions for Wally?

For more information BDNA Matt Lefer mlefer@bdna.com +1 (650) 641-6017 myITforum Rod Trent rodtrent@myitforum.com +1 (513) 217-7122 BDNA Normalize CM http://sccm.bdna.com Watch the demo Download now

Wrap Up
Next SCCM GURU Webcast:
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Reed Porter
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