Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager High availability and performance tuning
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Marius Sandbu
Marius Sandbu is an IT architect, advisor, and trainer. He has worked with Microsoft technology for over 10 years and has been awarded an MVP title from Microsoft for his great dedication to the Microsoft community. He is also a board member of the local Microsoft technology user group and has spoken at many public events at Microsoft, Citrix, and other events. He has always had a strong interest in technology, and he also works as an instructor for Veeam and Citrix. Over the past few years, he has been awarded titles across different areas of technology, and he also had a role within Microsoft as an infrastructure ranger. He is a certified Microsoft trainer and has conducted different courses on System Center and Windows Server over the years. He is also an active blogger at https://msandbu.wordpress.com/.
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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager High availability and performance tuning - Marius Sandbu
Table of Contents
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager High availability and performance tuning
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Planning for High Availability with Configuration Manager
Planning
Networking
Hardware
Database server
Virtualization hosts
Other Configuration Manager roles
Backup
Other components
Database planning
Central Administration site
Primary sites
Secondary sites
Management point
Distribution point
Software Update point
Fallback Status point
Application Catalog Website point & Web Service point
Reporting Services point
Network flow
New in Service Pack 1
Summary
2. Configuring Roles for High Availability
Site Server
Endpoint Protection
Asset Intelligence Synchronization Point
Fallback Status Point
Out of Band Service Point
Secondary sites
Windows Intune Connector
Management Point
Distribution point
PXE distribution point
Cloud-based distribution point
Pull-based distribution point
Rate limiting options
Application Catalog Website point
Application Catalog Web Service point
Reporting Services point
State Migration point
System Health Validator point
SMS Provider
Software Update point
Client
Sample site designs
Scenario 1
Scenario 2
Scenario 3
Scenario 4
Scenario 5
Scenario 6
Monitoring
Summary
3. Deploy Highly Available Backend Services
Active Directory
DNS
SQL Server
DHCP
Active Directory Certificate Services
Summary
4. Backup and Recovery
Backing up the site server
Backing up content
Backing up user state migration data
Backing up custom reports
Backing up a cloud-based distribution point
Backing up the Certification Authority
Restoring a site server
Restoring a secondary site server
Summary
5. Performance Tuning
Servers
Virtualizing hosts and physical servers
Identifying bottlenecks
Virtualization hosts
IIS
A SQL server
OS-deployment
Endpoint Protection
The Configuration Manager site
Reporting services
Summary
Index
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager High availability and performance tuning
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager High availability and performance tuning
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About the Author
Marius Sandbu is a Consultant, Advisor, and Trainer working at the VAD (Value Added Distributor) Commaxx in Norway. He has worked with Microsoft technology for over 8 years and has recently been awarded with a MVP title from Microsoft because of his high dedication to the Microsoft community. He is also a board member of the local Microsoft technology user group and spoken at many public events at both Microsoft and other events.
Marius has always had a high interest in technology, over the past few years he has taken over 20 certifications on different areas and technology, and also had a role within Microsoft as a V-TSP. He is also a certified Microsoft trainer and has held different courses, within System Center and Windows Server.
As an experiment to improve his learning skills, he started blogging in 2012 and now has over 2000 visitors to date. He also contributes to Born To Learn which is a Microsoft community website for training and certification.
I thank my lovely other half, Silje, for supporting and having patience with me, this is what made the book possible! Wouldn't be possible without you!
I also thank the people at Packt Publishing for a clean and efficient process with the book writing. It was a good experience and I've learned a lot during the process.
About the Reviewers
Dragos Madarasan is a Support Engineer for one of the fastest growing companies in Eastern Europe. After previous stints as a freelance IT Consultant and working for a Fortune 500 company, he now enjoys tackling complex scenarios and using his knowledge to bridge the space between IT and business needs.
Dragos publishes interesting cases on his personal blog and whenever time permits enjoys taking part in the ITSpark community as a Technical Writer and Speaker.
When not in front of a laptop, Dragos enjoys running and reading books on his Kindle.
Marius A. Skovli is a senior systems engineer at the consultant company Eniotec. It is a Microsoft partner specializing in delivering System Center and Windows Server solutions. He has worked with System Management since Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) 2003 and has focused on SMS and the latest version, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), ever since. Marius has extensive experience and knowledge of enterprise environments with high security demands, both private and governmental.
In addition to vast experience with SMS and SCCM solutions, he is also a certified MCP (SMS 2003), MCTS (SCCM 2007 / SCCM 2012), MCITP (enterprise administrator), and MCSE (private cloud).
Marius is the co-founder of Eniotec. His role is to help customers design, implement, and maintain their Configuration Manager environments. He also speaks at events and contributes on forums. In his spare time, he blogs and tweets about Microsoft System Center.
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Preface
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is a book that covers all of the aspects from planning to deploying a redundant Configuration Manager environment.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Planning for High Availability with Configuration Manager, covers what you need to plan for when you want to set up High Availability for your site. For instance, it shows how to plan a layout for SQL server, what kind of networking technology to use, and so on.
Chapter 2, Configuring Roles for High Availability, covers how you can deploy the different Configuration Manager roles that are highly available. For instance, it shows how we can deploy the application catalog service redundantly and the different forms of distribution points, and how they can affect the performance on our site.
Chapter 3, Deploy Highly Available Backend Services, covers how you can deploy backend services, such as DNS and AD that are highly available and how they operate together. It will also cover services such as SQL and using a redundant PKI solution.
Chapter 4, Backup and Recovery, covers what you need to take into account and how you can back up and restore a Configuration Manager environment. It also covers how the content store is built up and what we can use to back it up.
Chapter 5, Performance Tuning, covers various performance tuning tips such as OS deployment, virtualized environments, and SQL deployments. This chapter will also go into different OS tuning tips such as identifying bottlenecks using different tools.
What you need for this book
In order to try out the subjects covered