SMS 2003 Administrator's Reference

Systems Management Server 2003

Ron D. Crumbaker

346 pages, parution le 20/11/2006

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Résumé

As the core technology essential to IT departments for managing desktop hardware and software in a Windows environment, Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 is the hot Microsoft tool of choice for applying security patches, installing applications, and applying updates. This book discusses the steps you need to take to ensure that SMS 2003 is administered successfully to provide powerful management across an enterprise.

While the main focus is on SMS 2003 with Service Pack 1, author and Microsoft MVP Ron Crumbaker also covers SP2 while guiding you through the inner workings of SMS 2003 to help you gain control of all the aspects of systems management. Each chapter uses real-world examples and covers an SMS feature and an administrative task, ultimately showing you how you can use SMS 2003 to successfully administer an SMS 2003 environment.

You'll start working with SMS 2003 and this book by setting up your site hierarchy. From there you'll move on to managing SMS roles and security. You'll do extensive work with clients, discovering and inventorying resources and metering software use. Along with seeing the power of collections and packages, you'll learn to work with SMS reports to give you a structures view of your SMS data and to interpret SMS messages to keep the system running smoothly. The book wraps up by introducing some of the third-party extensions you can add to SMS to solve specific additional needs and gives you the power of automating repetitive SMS functions with scripts.

What you will learn from this book

How to secure SMS and maintain secure SMS infrastructure, accounts, and communication
Using the SMS 2003 discovery methods to detect and inventory information across your networks
Improving the process of delivering Windows and Microsoft Office updates with the Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates (ITMU)
Ways to configure policies to enable or disable "agents" on assigned SMS 2003 clients
What an SMS software package is and how to create, use, and distribute packages to update software on clients
How to best use third-party solutions to extend SMS functionality
Techniques for configuring software metering to track client program usage to make the most of your software budget
Best troubleshooting practices starting with preventing problems and understanding SMS status messages
How to provide console and web-based reporting with dashboards and custom reports for hardware, software, sites, users, and more

Who this book is for

This book is for the SMS administrator who needs to manage the ever-increasing demands for operation excellence at the desktop and server level.

Sommaire

Setting Up Your Site Hierarchy
Specifying and Managing Site System Roles
Managing SMS Security
Configuring Site Settings
Specifying Discovery Methods
Enabling Client Agent Settings
Client Installation Methods
Managing Collections
Creating and Distributing Packages
Creating Advertisements
Configuring Software Metering Rules
Providing Console and Web-Based Reporting
Managing Software Updates
Troubleshooting
Using Third-Party Solutions
Scripting SMS 2003
Where Is SMS Going?
Appendix A: SMS 2003 Setup
Index

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wrox Press
Auteur(s)	Ron D. Crumbaker
Parution	20/11/2006
Nb. de pages	346
Format	18,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	566g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780471749509
ISBN13	978-0-471-74950-9