Can you change a secondary site to a primary site?
No. A secondary site is always a secondary site. It cannot be upgraded, moved, or changed without deleting it and reinstalling it. If you delete and reinstall, you lose all secondary site data.
No. A secondary site is always a secondary site. It cannot be upgraded, moved, or changed without deleting it and reinstalling it. If you delete and reinstall, you lose all secondary site data.
Can you distribute a package to a computer without making it a member of a collection?
No. To distribute software you must have a package, a program and an advertisement. Advertisements can only be sent to collections, not to computers. If you want to distribute a package to a single computer, you must create a collection for that computer.
What is Secondary Site?
Four Main characteristics:
- A Secondary Site does not have access to a Microsoft SQL Database
- Secondary Sites are ALWAYS a Child Site of a Primary Site and can only be administered via a Primary Site
- Secondary Sites cannot have Child Sites of their own
- Clients cannot be assigned directly to the Site
What is CENTRAL SITE?
A Central Site is a Configuration Manager Primary Site that resides at the top of the Configuration Manager hierarchy. All Database information rolls from the child to the parent and is collected by the Central Site’s Configuration Manager Database. The Central Site can administer any site below it in the hierarchy and can send data down to those sites as well.What is PRIMARY SITE?
Four main characteristics:
- The Site has access to a Microsoft SQL Server Database
- Can administer or be administered via the Configuration Manager Console
- It can be a child of other Primary Sites and can have Child Sites of its own
- Clients can be assigned directly to the Site
http://exchangeserverinfo.com/2008/05/02/installation-and-configuration-of-secondary-site-server.aspx
How do you create a package for Adobe?
the command line msiexec.exe /q ALLUSERS=2 /m MSIHPSJR /i "AcroRead.msi" TRANSFORMS=mytransform.mstHow do you distribute a package?
- create a package in SCCM, pointing it to the installation sources, and in the package create an install program (you may have already done this?)
- assign Distribution Points to your package so the contents get synched.
- create a Collection containing the objects (users/computers) that are allowed to receive the package.
- create an Advertisement for the distribution, linking the package you created to the collection, decide whether the Adverisement is mandatory (installation enforced) or not (users have to go to the "Run Advertised Programs" dialog in Windows and select to install the program)
How SCCM download the patches?
You need to add the Software Update Point site role to the site, configure the software update point as active, configure the products, classifications, sync settings, etc. in the Software Update Point properties. THEN, you can go to the Update Repository node and run the Run Synchronization action from the central primary site. Once synchronization completes, you will see the metadata in the Configuration Manager console.How do you confiure the SUP?
In the Configuration Manager console, navigate to System CenterConfiguration Manager / Site Database /Site Management / <site code> - <site name> / Site Settings / Site Systems
Right-click the site system server name, and then click New Roles.
Select Software update point, and then click Next.
Specify whether the site server will use a proxy server when connecting to the software update point, and then clickNext.
Select Use this server as the active software update point, and then specify the port settings configured for the WSUS Web site on this site system.
Specify the synchronization source for the active software update point using one of the following settings: like Synchronize from Microsoft Update or Synchronize from an upstream update server
Keep the default setting Do not create WSUS reporting events, and then click Next
Specify whether to synchronize software updates on a schedule by selecting Enable synchronization on a schedule
Specify the update classifications for which the software updates will be synchronized, and then click Next.
Specify the products for which the software updates will be synchronized, and then click Next.
Open SUPSetup.log in <InstallationPath>\Logs to monitor the installation progress for the software update point. When the installation completes,
Installation was successful
is written to the log file.Open WCM.log in <InstallationPath>\Logs to verify that the connection to the WSUS server was successful.
How do you Backup SCCM Server?
To create a scheduled backup task, expand the Site Settings node and expand the Site Maintenance node, click on Tasks.
For Manual backup - Start SMS_SITE_BACKUP service
What are the client deployments methods?
Client Push Installion, Software update point based installation, Group Policy Installation, Logon Script Installation, Manual Installation, Upgrade Installation(software Distribution)Can you discover clients those are in different AD forest?
yes.
Internet-based client management, which supports the following site systems installed in a separate forest to the site server:
Management point
Distribution point
Software update point
Fallback status point
What are the prerequisite for Software Update Point?
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0, WSUS 3.0 Administration Console, Windows Update Agent (WUA) 3.0,Site server communication to the active software update point,Network Load Balancing (NLB),Background Intelligent Transfer Server (BITS) 2.5,Windows Installer
What is SMS Provider?
The SMS Provider is a WMI provider that allows both read and write access to the Configuration Manager 2007 site database. The SMS Provider is used by the Configuration Manager console
The SMS Provider can be installed on the site database server computer, site server computer or another server class third computer during Configuration Manager 2007 Setup. After setup has completed, the current installed location of the SMS Provider is displayed on the site properties general tab
What is ITMU?
SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for Microsoft Updates
What is the use of WSUS (Windows Server Update Service)?
It enables administrators to deploy the latest Microsoft product updates to computers that are running the Windows operating system. Difference between SMS 2003 and SCCM 2007
What is WMI (indows Management Instrumentation)?
You can write WMI scripts or applications to automate administrative tasks on remote computers
You can write WMI scripts or applications to automate administrative tasks on remote computers
What is SUP ( Software Update Point)?
This is required component of software updates, and after it is installed, the SUP is displayed as a site system role in the Configuration Manager console. The software update point site system role must be created on a site system server that has Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 installed.You want specific users\groups to run specific custom reports. What should you do?
Navigate to “System Center Configuration Manager – Site Database – Security Rights – Users”
Right click on “Users” and select “Manage ConfigMgr Users”
Navigate to the “SCCM Support” group you created earlier
- For “Collection” – “(All Instances)” add the following:
- “Delete resource”
- “Modify resource”
- “Read”
- “Read resource”
- “Use remote tools” - For “Report” – “(All Instances)” add the following:
- “Read” - For “Computer association” – “(All Instances)” add the following:
- “Create”
- “Delete”
- “Read”
- “Recover user state” - Click “Next”
- Click “Next”
- Click “Close”
To designate a distribution point on a new server or server share
- In the Configuration Manager console, navigate to System CenterConfiguration Manager / Site Database / Site Management / <site name> / Site Settings.
- Right-click Site Systems, point to New, and then click Server or Server Share, depending on which you want to create.
- If you are creating a new server, use the New Site System Server Wizard to create the site system server, and select the Distribution Point check box from the Available Roles on the System Role Selection page to designate this server as a distribution point.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb632618.aspx
You distributed a software application to some systems in your environment and few are failed, how do u troubleshoot the failure? what steps you will follow on client side and site server side? How SCCM clients come to know that they have to use SCCM WSUS?
How certificates created in SCCM and what they called?
How SCCM Communicate securely between sites? And where do you define that setting? what you will keep in mind before configuring SCCM server to manage clients.
What are the causes for a slow Configuration Manager Console connection and what would you do to make your Configuration Manager Console users' experience better?
How SCCM Communicate securely between sites? And where do you define that setting? what you will keep in mind before configuring SCCM server to manage clients.
What are the causes for a slow Configuration Manager Console connection and what would you do to make your Configuration Manager Console users' experience better?
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