This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to plan, deploy, and manage Configuration Manager 2007. The course focuses on planning and deploying sites and clients, configuring software distribution, deploying operating systems, and managing software updates. It also focuses on remote tools and managing mobile devices.

Target Audience:
This course is intended for Systems Engineers with one to three years of experience supporting multiple desktop and server computers running Microsoft Windows in medium to large enterprise organizations, and who have a need to plan a Configuration Manager 2007 deployment.
Additionally, this course is intended for Administrators who are responsible for configuring and managing one or more Configuration Manager 2007 sites and all supporting systems. They have one to three years of experience supporting multiple desktop and server computers running Microsoft Windows Server in medium to large enterprise organizations.

Duration:

5 days

Pre-requisites:

• A base-level understanding of Systems Management Server 2003.
• System Administrator–level working knowledge of:
• Deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting for Windows-based personal computers
• TCP/IP networking
• SQL Server
• Active Directory
• Basic Public Key Infrastructure concepts

 Objectives:

• Overview of Configuration Manager 2007
• Planning and Deploying a Single-Site Architecture
• Planning and Deploying Configuration Manager 2007 Clients
• Collecting Inventory and Metering Software Usage
• Querying and Reporting Data
• Preparing for and Managing Software Distribution
• Deploying Operating Systems Using Configuration Manager 2007
• Working with Desired Configuration Managementin Configuration Manager 2007
• Using Remote Tools and Wake On LAN features
• Managing Mobile Devices Using Configuration Manager 2007
• Maintaining and Troubleshooting Configuration Manager 2007
• Planning and Configuring a Multiple Site Hierarchy