55313: Administering Configuration Manager, Part I: Fundamentals and Asset Management Training

This module introduces the Microsoft Endpoint Manager suite and Configuration Manager. It also explains the various asset-management, change-management, and administrative features in Configuration Manager. The module introduces the Configuration Manager console, including its installation, and the support tools included with Configuration Manager, including CMTrace.

Lessons

Microsoft Endpoint Manager and Features of Configuration Manager

Configuration Manager Concepts and Fundamentals

The Configuration Manager Console, CMTrace, and Other Tools

Lab 1: Installing and Using the Configuration Manager Console and CMTrace

Installing the Configuration Manager Console

Using the Configuration Manager Console

Using CMTrace

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the features of Configuration Manager and explain where it fits within the Microsoft Enpoint Manager suite framework.

Navigate the Configuration Manager console and explain where each of the major features of Configuration Manager can be managed.

Install and use the Configuration Manager console and CMTrace.

This module explains how to prepare the Configuration Manager infrastructure for deploying the Configuration Manager client software and the subsequent management of client devices. The module covers Active Directory integration, resource discovery, resource collections, and the configuration of boundaries and boundary groups.

Lessons

Configuration Manager integration with Active Directory

User and System Resource Discovery

Resource Collections

Boundaries and Boundary Groups

Lab 1: Configuring Active Directory Integration, Discovery, and Collections

Verifying the Configuration of Active Directory Integration

Configuring Resource Discovery Methods

Creating Collections

Lab 2: Configuring Boundaries and Boundary Groups

Configuring and Discovering Boundaries

Configuring Boundary Groups

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain the Configuration Manager infrastructure configuration requirements for client deployment.

Configure Configuration Manager/Active Directory integration.

Configure user and system resource discovery.

Configure boundaries and boundary groups.

This module introduces the Configuration Manager client and explains its functions in Configuration Manager operations. It discusses the platforms and operating systems for which the Configuration Manager client is available. The module also explains the various client-installation methods and the site system roles and other infrastructure requirements for each of those methods. Finally, the module explains client settings and monitoring client health.

Lessons

Configuration Manager Client Fundamentals

Client Installation

Client Settings

Client Health

Lab 1: Installing the Configuration Manager Client

Configuring Roles and Settings for Client Installation

Installing the Configuration Manager Client

Monitoring the Client Installation Process

Lab 2: Configuring Client Settings and Monitoring Client Health

Configuring and Verifying Client Settings

Verifying Client Health

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain the various deployment methods for the Configuration Manager client, select a client deployment method appropriate for the organization's environment, and implement the selected method.

Configure client settings for the Configuration Manager client.

Monitor Configuration Manager client health.

This module explains how to configure and manage the asset-management features of Configuration Manager. It covers hardware inventory and legacy software inventory, including file collection; Asset Intelligence; and software metering. It also explains how to monitor and troubleshoot the various client and server processes involved in asset management and how to secure inventory collection.

Lessons

Introduction to Asset Management Features

Hardware Inventory

Software Inventory

Asset Intelligence

Software Metering

Lab 1: Configuring and Managing Hardware and Software Inventory Collection

Configuring Hardware Inventory

Configuring Software Inventory and File Collection

Testing Inventory Collection and Reviewing Results

Lab 2: Configuring Asset Intelligence

Implementing the Asset Intelligence Synchronization Point

Configuring Asset Intelligence Reporting Classes

Importing Software License Data

Lab 3: Configuring and Managing Software Metering

Configuring Software Metering

Generating and Summarizing Software Metering Data

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the asset-management features of Configuration Manager.

Implement hardware and software inventory, including file collection.

Implement Asset Intelligence.

Implement software metering.

This module explains how to use queries and reports in Configuration Manager. It introduces data query concepts and explains how to create and run queries to retrieve data from the Configuration Manager database. The module also covers status message queries, which can provide process-status and component-health information. The module introduces the CMPivot feature for performing real-time queries on client devices. Finally, the module introduces SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), covers how to configure SSRS prior to implementing reporting in Configuration Manager, and explains how to run reports on-demand, create report subscriptions, and configure report security.

Lessons

Data and Status Message Queries

Real-time CMPivot Queries

Reports

Lab 1: Creating and Running Queries

Creating a Simple-value Query

Creating a Prompted-value Query

Creating a Subselected-value Query

Copying, Modifying, and Using a Status Message Query

Lab 2: Using CMPivot

Using Basic Functions of CMPivot

Using CMPivot to Analyze the Current State of a Device

Creating Collections Based on CMPivot Results

Lab 3: Implementing and Using Configuration Manager Reporting

Configuring SQL Reporting Services

Implementing a Reporting Services Point

Running Reports

Subscribing to Reports

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Create and use data and status message queries.

Perform real-time device queries by using CMPivot.

Implement and use reporting features in Configuration Manager.