This document summarizes how to perform zero touch installations with System Center Configuration Manager 2012. It covers ConfigMgr features, installing ConfigMgr and required server roles, creating a ConfigMgr site, and setting up an operating system deployment. Key steps include planning the server infrastructure, installing ConfigMgr, adding site system roles, integrating Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, importing OS images, and creating a deployment task sequence to automatically install operating systems on clients.

1. Zero Touch Installations with
System Center Configuration
Manager 2012
Presented by Rhonda J. Layfield
Copyright 2010

2. What We’ll Cover Today:
• ConfigMgr Features
• Installation
• Create a ConfigMgr Site
• Setup a ZTI OSD

3. ConfigMgr Features
• Collect hardware and software and inventory
• Deploy software applications
• Deploy software updates
• Provide network policies
• Meter software usage
• Specify desired configuration
• Remotely control clients
• Provide operating system deployments (OSD)

4. Installation

5. Planning Installation of ConfigMgr
• The most important step
• Installing ConfigMgr requires dedicated servers
• These servers have special names:
– Site Systems
– There are a few different kinds
– I’ll cover the ones needed for OSD

6. Installation
• Server 2008 R2
• DC, DNS, DHCP, WDS
• SQL Server 2008
– .Net Framework 3.5.1
– Install SQL Server 2008 SP1
• Enable Named Pipes

7. Still Installing
• Requirements for ConfigMgr
– Extend AD Schema
– IIS
• WebDav Publishing
• ASP
• IIS Management Tools
– Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
– Remote Differential Compression (RDC)

8. Complete Installation
• WEBDav
– Authoring Rule
– WEBDav settings – Property behavior
• Install ConfigMgr 2007 SP2
• Install ConfigMgr 2007 R2
• ConfigMgr 2007 Toolkit
• Create and share folders for:
– Packages
– Images
– Logs
– Migration Data

9. Installing ConfigMgr Creates a “Site
Server”
• Site Server contains configuration information
– For a “Site”
– Sites group client computers based on:
• Active Directory Sites
• IP Subnets
• Controlled at the Site level:
– How hardware and software inventory are handled
• Enabled / disabled
• Configured for how often they collect and report data
– How often clients check for software applications
– Keep track of how often software is used

10. Site
Server

11. What is a site?
• Group clients into manageable units with similar requirements
• The way you create a site is by defining boundaries
– Active Directory
– Subnets
• One set of configuration parameters per site
• Clients can roam from one site to another
• How many sites will you need?
– What type?

12. 2 Types of Sites
Primary Site 1
Site Site DB Parent
Server Server
Child Secondary Site 3 Primary Site 2 Child
Site Site DB
Server Server
Parent
Secondary Site 4
Child

13. Setting Boundaries

14. Deploy ConfigMgr Agents
• All clients in a ConfigMgr site must have the
client software installed
• This software is called an “Agent”
• There are multiple types of Agents

15. Client Agents
• Client agent can be installed in more than one method
– Client push installer
• Component Configuration
– Double click Software Distribution
– Software Distribution Properties type E:
• But first the clients need to be found
– Discovery methods
• AD System Discovery

16. Add Site System Roles
• Remember those dedicated servers from
earlier?
• Now it’s time to set up Site Systems
• Run the New Site Role Wizard

17. Integrate MDT 2012

18. Install MDT 2012
• ENSURE THE CONFIG MGR CONSOLE IS CLOSED
• Create a new Deployment Share
• To install MDT 2012:
– Click Start > Run
• Microsoft Deployment Toolkit -> Configure ConfigMgr Integration
• Create USMT package source
• But USMT is not supported on Server OSs

19. Integrate MDT 2012

20. Operating System Deployments
(OSD)
• The Goal
– Deploy Windows 7 to your clients
– Some we will need to save the users state
• What we need to do
– Deploy Windows 7 OS files to the clients
– Deploy the instructions for running the OS files on the client
• The OS files are called a package
• The instructions are called a program
• Advertisements are the clients that receive
• All created on the site server
• But sent to different servers

21. Primary Site
OSD all W7
Deploy XPSite
To
clients
Server Site DB
Server
Management Distribution
Point Point

22. Last OSD Steps
• Import drivers into the boot image
• Add an OS image
• Create a Deployment Image Task Sequence
• Assign Distribution Points
• Create Advertisement
• Deploy image

23. Set Up an OSD

24. What We Covered
• ConfigMgr Features
• Installation
• Create a ConfigMgr Site
• Setup a ZTI OSD