Chapter 2. Planning a Configuration Manager Infrastructure

It has been a common misconception over the years that Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS), now Configuration Manager 2007, is nothing more than a beefed-up software deployment system. With that assumption, SMS deployments often have not been planned properly and have suffered performance problems. These issues can be blamed on the software itself, the administrator who runs the system, or other factors which will result in a waste of time and resources trying to support an application that was poorly planned in the first place. Properly planning an SMS infrastructure is crucial in utilizing the software to its full potential. This is even more the case with System Center Configuration ...

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