Planning and Deploying System Center 2012 Configuration Manager — Lesson 2: Site Installation, Client Deployment, and Content Distribution

Learning Objectives

• Install and configure site systems, prerequisites, accounts, certificates, and core roles
• Discover resources and deploy, approve, monitor, and troubleshoot Configuration Manager clients
• Plan packages, applications, content distribution, boundaries, and bandwidth controls

Detailed Topics

• Install and configure site systems: Install and configure site systems, prerequisites, accounts, certificates, and core roles
• Discover resources and deploy: Discover resources and deploy, approve, monitor, and troubleshoot Configuration Manager clients
• Plan packages: Plan packages, applications, content distribution, boundaries, and bandwidth controls

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Design a client-and-content rollout and document validation and rollback steps.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Site Installation, Client Deployment, and Content Distribution in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.