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System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Unleashed: Supplement to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed
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System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Unleashed: Supplement to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed

by Kerrie Meyler, Jason Sandys, Greg Ramsey, Dan Andersen, Panu Saukko, Kenneth van Surksum, Michael Wiles
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
11h 9m
English
Sams
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Deployment Control

A common challenge with previous versions of ConfigMgr was making task sequences generally available to known systems only when booted using PXE or from media. Known systems are those that a site has a corresponding resource record for that includes a system’s Media Access Control (MAC) address, it’s SMBIOS GUID, or both. This is not a problem for unknown systems because they don’t receive deployments from ConfigMgr unless PXE or media booted.

Deploying a task sequence to any subset of known systems was essentially an all or nothing proposition. The task sequence deployment would be available when any of those known systems was PXE or media booted; however, it also showed up in Software Center (or the ConfigMgr 2007 Run Advertised ...

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