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1. Zero Touch Installations with
System Center Configuration
Manager 2012
Presented by Rhonda J. Layfield
Copyright 2010

2. What We’ll Cover Today:
• ConfigMgr Features
• Installation
• Create a ConfigMgr Site
• Setup a ZTI OSD

3. ConfigMgr Features
• Collect hardware and software and inventory
• Deploy software applications
• Deploy software updates
• Provide network policies
• Meter software usage
• Specify desired configuration
• Remotely control clients
• Provide operating system deployments (OSD)

4. Installation

5. Planning Installation of ConfigMgr
• The most important step
• Installing ConfigMgr requires dedicated servers
• These servers have special names:
– Site Systems
– There are a few different kinds
– I’ll cover the ones needed for OSD

6. Installation
• Server 2008 R2
• DC, DNS, DHCP, WDS
• SQL Server 2008
– .Net Framework 3.5.1
– Install SQL Server 2008 SP1
• Enable Named Pipes

7. Still Installing
• Requirements for ConfigMgr
– Extend AD Schema
– IIS
• WebDav Publishing
• ASP
• IIS Management Tools
– Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
– Remote Differential Compression (RDC)

8. Complete Installation
• WEBDav
– Authoring Rule
– WEBDav settings – Property behavior
• Install ConfigMgr 2007 SP2
• Install ConfigMgr 2007 R2
• ConfigMgr 2007 Toolkit
• Create and share folders for:
– Packages
– Images
– Logs
– Migration Data

9. Installing ConfigMgr Creates a “Site
Server”
• Site Server contains configuration information
– For a “Site”
– Sites group client computers based on:
• Active Directory Sites
• IP Subnets
• Controlled at the Site level:
– How hardware and software inventory are handled
• Enabled / disabled
• Configured for how often they collect and report data
– How often clients check for software applications
– Keep track of how often software is used

10. Site
Server

11. What is a site?
• Group clients into manageable units with similar requirements
• The way you create a site is by defining boundaries
– Active Directory
– Subnets
• One set of configuration parameters per site
• Clients can roam from one site to another
• How many sites will you need?
– What type?

12. 2 Types of Sites
Primary Site 1
Site Site DB Parent
Server Server
Child Secondary Site 3 Primary Site 2 Child
Site Site DB
Server Server
Parent
Secondary Site 4
Child

13. Setting Boundaries

14. Deploy ConfigMgr Agents
• All clients in a ConfigMgr site must have the
client software installed
• This software is called an “Agent”
• There are multiple types of Agents

15. Client Agents
• Client agent can be installed in more than one method
– Client push installer
• Component Configuration
– Double click Software Distribution
– Software Distribution Properties type E:
• But first the clients need to be found
– Discovery methods
• AD System Discovery

16. Add Site System Roles
• Remember those dedicated servers from
earlier?
• Now it’s time to set up Site Systems
• Run the New Site Role Wizard

17. Integrate MDT 2012

18. Install MDT 2012
• ENSURE THE CONFIG MGR CONSOLE IS CLOSED
• Create a new Deployment Share
• To install MDT 2012:
– Click Start > Run
• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit -> Configure ConfigMgr Integration
• Create USMT package source
• But USMT is not supported on Server OSs

19. Integrate MDT 2012

20. Operating System Deployments
(OSD)
• The Goal
– Deploy Windows 7 to your clients
– Some we will need to save the users state
• What we need to do
– Deploy Windows 7 OS files to the clients
– Deploy the instructions for running the OS files on the client
• The OS files are called a package
• The instructions are called a program
• Advertisements are the clients that receive
• All created on the site server
• But sent to different servers

21. Primary Site
OSD all W7
Deploy XPSite
To
clients
Server Site DB
Server
Management Distribution
Point Point

22. Last OSD Steps
• Import drivers into the boot image
• Add an OS image
• Create a Deployment Image Task Sequence
• Assign Distribution Points
• Create Advertisement
• Deploy image

23. Set Up an OSD

24. What We Covered
• ConfigMgr Features
• Installation
• Create a ConfigMgr Site
• Setup a ZTI OSD