Chapter 3. Making ConfigMgr aware of your environment

After it’s been installed, the first ConfigMgr primary site server in your environment is a remarkably empty place. Only the most critical ConfigMgr server roles are installed and enabled, so the server is something of a blank slate, waiting for you to tell it what to do.

As you work through the book, you’ll add more and more server roles to your ConfigMgr server, making it more flexible and capable, but the first thing to do is to make the server “aware” of the lab environment so that it can start interacting with it.

As shown in figure 3.1, by the end of this chapter you’ll be able to configure ConfigMgr to discover machines, users, groups, sites, and subnets in your Active Directory ...

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