SCCM Current Branch: Deploy Clients and Manage Inventory
Learn the best ways to deploy clients, configure inventory, and query and report on SCCM data in this deep-dive course.
What you'll learn
With a primary site and site server now installed, we turn our attention in this course to the clients. While Configuration Manager is a great solution for deploying software, there's, as you might imagine, a bit of bootstrapping that's necessary to get client agents installed and clients to begin communicating. SCCM supports at least six different ways to deploy client software, as well as innumerable ways to customize client behaviors once installed.
In this course, SCCM Current Branch: Deploy Clients and Manage Inventory, you'll walk through four of the six major client deployment options. First, you'll explore how to successfully automate your deployments. Next, you'll explore client hardware and software inventory, arguably the foundation of every other feature that SCCM has to offer. Finally, you'll dig deeper than you'll probably find anywhere else into the art of creating good queries and collections, including a few nifty tricks that use SQL views to visually cheat the otherwise-opaque collection creation process. By this end of this course, you'll translate what you've learned in building queries and collections into generating custom reports, giving you the tools to visualize what's really going on in and around your managed desktops.
Table of contents
- Introduction 5m
- Options for Installing the SCCM Client 5m
- Configure Management Point Settings 2m
- Install a Failback Status Point 2m
- Configure Client Settings 7m
- Configure Client Approval and Upgrade Settings 4m
- Configure Power Management 2m
- Install the SCCM Client: Manually 8m
- Install the SCCM Client: Workgroup Machines 4m
- Install the SCCM Client: Logon Scripts 2m
- Install the SCCM Client: Group Policy 4m
- Install the SCCM Client: Client Push 5m
- Explore the Client User Interface 4m
- Monitor Client Status 2m
- What This Module Covered 2m
- Introduction 5m
- A Quick Aside on Software Inventory 4m
- Construct a Query with the Query Wizard 10m
- Construct a Query on Physical RAM 5m
- Construct a Query on Installed Software 4m
- Explore Queries in SQL Management Studio 7m
- Visualize Inventory Data in SQL Management Studio 7m
- Visualize Installed Software Data in SQL Management Studio 3m
- Construct Subselect Queries 5m
- Create a Query-based Collection 4m
- Create a Query-based Collection for Desktops 4m
- Construct Status Message Queries 2m
- Easter Egg: Explore Collections in SQL Management Studio 2m
- What This Module Covered 2m