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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager High availability and performance tuning
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager High availability and performance tuning
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager High availability and performance tuning
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This book is a step-by-step tutorial that guides you through the key steps in implementing best solutions for high availability and performance tuning. It is split into two distinct approaches: client and site side HA and optimization.Microsoft SCCM High Availability and Performance Tuning is for IT professionals and consultants working with Configuration Manager who wish to learn the skills to deploy a redundant and scalable solution.
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Release dateNov 25, 2013
ISBN9781782176770
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager High availability and performance tuning
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Marius Sandbu

Marius Sandbu is an IT architect, advisor, and trainer. He has worked with Microsoft technology for over 10 years and has been awarded an MVP title from Microsoft for his great dedication to the Microsoft community. He is also a board member of the local Microsoft technology user group and has spoken at many public events at Microsoft, Citrix, and other events. He has always had a strong interest in technology, and he also works as an instructor for Veeam and Citrix. Over the past few years, he has been awarded titles across different areas of technology, and he also had a role within Microsoft as an infrastructure ranger. He is a certified Microsoft trainer and has conducted different courses on System Center and Windows Server over the years. He is also an active blogger at https://msandbu.wordpress.com/.

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    Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager High availability and performance tuning - Marius Sandbu

    Table of Contents

    Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager High availability and performance tuning

    Credits

    About the Author

    About the Reviewers

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    Preface

    What this book covers

    What you need for this book

    Who this book is for

    Conventions

    Reader feedback

    Customer support

    Errata

    Piracy

    Questions

    1. Planning for High Availability with Configuration Manager

    Planning

    Networking

    Hardware

    Database server

    Virtualization hosts

    Other Configuration Manager roles

    Backup

    Other components

    Database planning

    Central Administration site

    Primary sites

    Secondary sites

    Management point

    Distribution point

    Software Update point

    Fallback Status point

    Application Catalog Website point & Web Service point

    Reporting Services point

    Network flow

    New in Service Pack 1

    Summary

    2. Configuring Roles for High Availability

    Site Server

    Endpoint Protection

    Asset Intelligence Synchronization Point

    Fallback Status Point

    Out of Band Service Point

    Secondary sites

    Windows Intune Connector

    Management Point

    Distribution point

    PXE distribution point

    Cloud-based distribution point

    Pull-based distribution point

    Rate limiting options

    Application Catalog Website point

    Application Catalog Web Service point

    Reporting Services point

    State Migration point

    System Health Validator point

    SMS Provider

    Software Update point

    Client

    Sample site designs

    Scenario 1

    Scenario 2

    Scenario 3

    Scenario 4

    Scenario 5

    Scenario 6

    Monitoring

    Summary

    3. Deploy Highly Available Backend Services

    Active Directory

    DNS

    SQL Server

    DHCP

    Active Directory Certificate Services

    Summary

    4. Backup and Recovery

    Backing up the site server

    Backing up content

    Backing up user state migration data

    Backing up custom reports

    Backing up a cloud-based distribution point

    Backing up the Certification Authority

    Restoring a site server

    Restoring a secondary site server

    Summary

    5. Performance Tuning

    Servers

    Virtualizing hosts and physical servers

    Identifying bottlenecks

    Virtualization hosts

    IIS

    A SQL server

    OS-deployment

    Endpoint Protection

    The Configuration Manager site

    Reporting services

    Summary

    Index

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    Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager High availability and performance tuning

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    About the Author

    Marius Sandbu is a Consultant, Advisor, and Trainer working at the VAD (Value Added Distributor) Commaxx in Norway. He has worked with Microsoft technology for over 8 years and has recently been awarded with a MVP title from Microsoft because of his high dedication to the Microsoft community. He is also a board member of the local Microsoft technology user group and spoken at many public events at both Microsoft and other events.

    Marius has always had a high interest in technology, over the past few years he has taken over 20 certifications on different areas and technology, and also had a role within Microsoft as a V-TSP. He is also a certified Microsoft trainer and has held different courses, within System Center and Windows Server.

    As an experiment to improve his learning skills, he started blogging in 2012 and now has over 2000 visitors to date. He also contributes to Born To Learn which is a Microsoft community website for training and certification.

    I thank my lovely other half, Silje, for supporting and having patience with me, this is what made the book possible! Wouldn't be possible without you!

    I also thank the people at Packt Publishing for a clean and efficient process with the book writing. It was a good experience and I've learned a lot during the process.

    About the Reviewers

    Dragos Madarasan is a Support Engineer for one of the fastest growing companies in Eastern Europe. After previous stints as a freelance IT Consultant and working for a Fortune 500 company, he now enjoys tackling complex scenarios and using his knowledge to bridge the space between IT and business needs.

    Dragos publishes interesting cases on his personal blog and whenever time permits enjoys taking part in the ITSpark community as a Technical Writer and Speaker.

    When not in front of a laptop, Dragos enjoys running and reading books on his Kindle.

    Marius A. Skovli is a senior systems engineer at the consultant company Eniotec. It is a Microsoft partner specializing in delivering System Center and Windows Server solutions. He has worked with System Management since Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) 2003 and has focused on SMS and the latest version, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), ever since. Marius has extensive experience and knowledge of enterprise environments with high security demands, both private and governmental.

    In addition to vast experience with SMS and SCCM solutions, he is also a certified MCP (SMS 2003), MCTS (SCCM 2007 / SCCM 2012), MCITP (enterprise administrator), and MCSE (private cloud).

    Marius is the co-founder of Eniotec. His role is to help customers design, implement, and maintain their Configuration Manager environments. He also speaks at events and contributes on forums. In his spare time, he blogs and tweets about Microsoft System Center.

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    Preface

    Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is a book that covers all of the aspects from planning to deploying a redundant Configuration Manager environment.

    What this book covers

    Chapter 1, Planning for High Availability with Configuration Manager, covers what you need to plan for when you want to set up High Availability for your site. For instance, it shows how to plan a layout for SQL server, what kind of networking technology to use, and so on.

    Chapter 2, Configuring Roles for High Availability, covers how you can deploy the different Configuration Manager roles that are highly available. For instance, it shows how we can deploy the application catalog service redundantly and the different forms of distribution points, and how they can affect the performance on our site.

    Chapter 3, Deploy Highly Available Backend Services, covers how you can deploy backend services, such as DNS and AD that are highly available and how they operate together. It will also cover services such as SQL and using a redundant PKI solution.

    Chapter 4, Backup and Recovery, covers what you need to take into account and how you can back up and restore a Configuration Manager environment. It also covers how the content store is built up and what we can use to back it up.

    Chapter 5, Performance Tuning, covers various performance tuning tips such as OS deployment, virtualized environments, and SQL deployments. This chapter will also go into different OS tuning tips such as identifying bottlenecks using different tools.

    What you need for this book

    In order to try out the subjects covered

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