Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2

2.4. Gathering Deployment Intelligence

With the information on the operating system and hardware requirements for Configuration Manager, your mission is now to gather the rest of the information required to properly plan your Configuration Manager deployment.

This "deployment intelligence" is extremely important in the success of planning your deployment, and people often overlook this step or don't gather enough information to properly plan for what a company might need to get out of the Configuration Manager system.

Deployment intelligence has three parts, which can be done in any order, or at the same time:

Determine what you need to accomplish with Configuration Manager

To be able to get as much as you need to from Configuration Manager, ...