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System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. Why migrate to it? Wally Mead Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation. Configuration Manager 2012. Empower Users. Unify Infrastructure. Simplify Administration. Empower people to be productive from anywhere on whatever device they choose.

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System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

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  1. System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Why migrate to it? Wally Mead Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation

  2. 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 Improve IT effectiveness and efficiency • Mobile, physical, and virtual management • Security and compliance • Service management integration • Comprehensive client management capabilities • Improved administrator effectiveness • Reduced infrastructure complexity • Device freedom • Optimized, personalized application experience • Application self-service

  3. Reducing Primary Sites

  4. Infrastructure Changes: Content • One Distribution Point • Throttling and scheduling of content to that location • Pre-stage of content and specify specific drives for storage • PXE Service Point – Increased scalability beyond the ConfigMgr 2007 limit of 75 PXE service points per site • Multicast option • 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

  5. Minimum System Requirements:

  6. Prepare for Configuration Manager 2012 • Flatten hierarchy where possible • Plan for Windows Server 2008 and SQL 2008 - all 64-bit • Start implementing BranchCache™ with Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 • Move from web reporting to SQL Reporting Services with Configuration Manager 2007 R2/R3 • Avoid mixing user and devices in collection definitions • Use UNC (\\server\myapp) in package source path instead of local path (d:\myapp)

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

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