Sunday, July 13, 2008

Introduction to Configuration Manager 2007 – Part 1

A must read if you are new to the product is "Introduction to Configuration Manager 2007 – Part 1" on the blog of Ronni Pedersen.

When people that are new to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, start playing around with the product in a test lab, they often want to start with a simple OS deployment setup. But if you are new to the product and wants to deploy Windows XP, getting started could be a bit challenging. This article (not sure how many parts it will contain yet), will be a guide through the basic steps, that needs to be configured in order to successful deploy Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Enterprise with Service Pack 1.

This article is based on System Center Configuration Manager 2007 with Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 RTM. All roles will be installed on a single box (virtual machine). Installing everything on the same box is not “best practice” in production.

The headlines for the first parts are:
Part 1: Pre-Configuration Manager Installation tasks
Part 2: Installing and Configuring Configuration Manager 2007 with Service Pack 1.
Part 3: Preparing and Configuring Configuration Manager for OS deployment
Part 4: Building the reference image
Part 5: Deploying the client Operating System

Read more at source

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