2012
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
Overview
User Group June 2012
Evolution of Microsoft Client Management
2012
Client Management
Infancy (NT Domain)
Groups Model
Laptops, Servers,
Enterprise Scale
Comprehensive
Management
Management
from the Cloud
Consumerization
of IT
Challenges
to Enabling
Consumerization
Infrastructure
Considerations
Management of I want to use the
diverse devices device I prefer
Devices  How
User can IT support
manage all
Corporate  and
Consumer
those devices?
Secure, anywhereI want to connect to
be
Application
Experience
access to apps people and
productive
& data
anywhere, anytime
How can IT provide
Security
and and
Access
access
to apps
data
while maintaining
security?
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
Empower Users
Unify Infrastructure
Simplify Administration
Empower people to be
more productive from
almost anywhere on
almost any device.
Reduce costs by unifying
IT management
infrastructure.
Improve IT effectiveness
and efficiency.
Empower Users
Unify Infrastructure
Simplify Administration
Application Delivery
Mobile Device Management
Empower people to be
more productive from
anywhere on any device.
Reduce costs by unifying
IT management
infrastructure.
Improve IT effectiveness
and efficiency.
User-centric Application Delivery
Empower
Administrator
Delivery Evaluation Criteria
• Deliver best user experience on each device
• Define application once
< >
• User
• Device type
• Network connection
User/Device Relationships
Windows
Embedded
Primary Devices
• MSI
• App-V
Non-primary Devices
• VDI
• Presentation Server
• Remote Desktop
User-centric Application Delivery
New Application Model
General Information
Application “Package”
< >
Administrator Properties
End User Metadata
Deployment Type
App-V
Detection Method
Windows Script
Install Command
Windows Installer
Requirement Rules
CAB
Dependencies
Supersedence
Empower
User-centric Application Delivery
End User Self-service
IT
User
Administrators publish software
titles to catalog, complete with meta
data to enable search
• Deliver best user experience
on each device
Users can browse, select and install
directly from Catalog
• Application model determines
format and policies for delivery
Empower
Unify Infrastructure
Reduced Infrastructure Requirements
Unified Management of Virtual Clients
Endpoint Protection
Compliance & Settings Management
Reduce costs by unifying
IT management
infrastructure.
Software Update Management
Power Management
Internet-based Client Management
Reduced Infrastructure Requirements
Unify
Central Administration Site
Primary Sites
Secondary Sites
• Central primary site administration
• Reporting
• Client management and settings
• Delegated administration
• Content routing
• Distributions points
Central
Administration
Site
Primary Site
Secondary Site
Secondary Site
Primary Site
Secondary Site
Secondary Site
Secondary Site
Secondary Site
Unified Management of Virtual Clients
Unify
User-centric application delivery through
App-V or Citrix XenApp.
CONNECTION BROKER
Single admin experience for managing
physical and virtual desktops. Integrates with
RDS and XenDesktop.
• Recognizes pooled and personal virtual desktops
• Randomizes tasks
APP-V
CONFIGMGR
SEQUENCER
DP/MP
HYPER-V
Security and Compliance
Endpoint Protection
Unified Infrastructure
• Simplified server
and client deployment
• Streamlined updates
• Consolidated reporting
Comprehensive Protection Stack
•
•
•
•
Behavior monitoring
Antimalware
Dynamic Translation
Windows and Firewall
Management
Internet-based Client Management
Intranet
Reduced Complexity
Internet
• Single Primary site can manage both Intranet
clients (over HTTP) and Internet clients (over
HTTPS)
PR1
MP
MP
DP
DP
Flexibility
• Primary sites can be configured to either support
only HTTPS roles or both HTTP and HTTPS site
roles
Reliability
Non PKI enabled site system
PKI enabled site system
Unify
• Intelligent client behavior enables client to
communicate using the most secure option
available
• Tighter security enforcement by only allowing
clients with Enterprise-issued certificates to
communicate with the ConfigMgr roles
Role Based Administration
Simplify
Map the organizational roles of your administrators
to defined security roles
Meg- WW Central System
Administrator
• Security organization role
• Geography
Louis-Software Update
Manager for France
Reduces error, defines span of control for the organization
Functionality
ConfigMgr 2007
ConfigMgr 2012
Can see & update
“France” desktops
• Cannot modify security
settings on “France”
desktops
• Cannot see “All Systems”
or “U.S.” desktops
•
Bob- US & France
Security Admin
Can see & modify
security settings on
“France” and “U.S.”
desktops
• Cannot update “France”
or “U.S.” desktops
• Cannot see “All
Systems”
•
Summary
Simplify
Unify
Empower
Key Scenarios
2007 R3
2012
Infrastructure Sizing
•
•
•
•
•
SCCM 2007 Summary Numbers as of May 2012
Bureau
Friendly
Name(s)
Total Hierarchies
Total Sites
Total Primary Sites
13
310
124
Active
Directory
Domain
Top
Level Tier 2 Tier 3
1
3
0
1
17
139
Number of Number of Number of
Primary
Secondary Distribution
Sites
Sites
Points
4
0
116
18
139
157
Clients
Clients
Assigned Installed
6,575
6,037
16,443
15,400
Enabled
Computer
Accounts in AD
7,480
17,858
1
3
0
1
3
15
4,185
2,782
3,523
1
7
0
8
0
81
9,385
7,451
1
6
5
7
5
11
4,152
3,926
1
1
1
1
1
9
0
10
0
0
14
0
14
0
10
0
0
410
1
11 ?
1
23 ?
33,493
149
22,725
145
0
0
10
1
1
1
1
407
405
8,009
3,833
3,538
30,013
154
891
2?
1,115
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
1
15
5
0
64
1
70
15
0
298
179
12,786
18,984
12,504
15,634
15,058
25,376
74
179
13
75
222
124
186
1304
106,559
87,009
119,005
1,904
Topic
Details
Total Managed
Clients
Separated Internal
Departments
86,000
17
Distributed Locations 3239
Primary Site Servers
9
Child Primary Servers 287
Secondary Site
Servers
Distribution Points
275
1258
Topic
Details
Total Managed
Clients
Separated Internal
Departments
86,000
17
Distributed Locations 3239
Central
Administration
Servers
1
Primary Servers
15
Secondary Site
Servers
Distribution Points
100
3000
(CAS) Central Administration Site Servers (1)
Role Based Administration
Tier 1
CAS
Primary Site Servers (6)
Management Point
App Catalog Web
Fallback Status point
Software Updates
Tier 2
USGS
BLM
Secondary Site Servers
25k clients per site
250 per primary site
Based on upaward Routing requirements to Primary location
SQL installation required
Tier 3
DP
DP/Site Servers
250 per Site Server
4000 Max connections per
Sender throttling available
Non-Server Win7 OS supported
PXE Service Points
Placement on sites with greater than 100 clents
5000 per Primary
BLM
USFW
NPS2
NPS1
USGS1
USGS2
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