What you need for this book
This book assumes a medium-level of System Center Configuration Manager knowledge, basic knowledge of Windows Workstation, and moderate experience with Windows Server. The book will go through simply toward a more advanced SCCM environment, which may require a basic understanding of networking and virtualization concepts. As this is a cookbook, there will be several recipes that you can try out and benefit from using in your production environment after testing that they work in your business.
With the Microsoft-wide evaluation licence, you will be able to try this product for 180 days.
SCCM can be installed and run either on a bare metal or virtual machine. However, this book requires that you have enough resources to the whole setup. Minimum hardware or virtual requirements are as follows:
- CPU: 2 cores
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Disk space: 80 GB
In this book, you will need the following software list:
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit ADK
- Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Internet connectivity is required to install the necessary to get all the setup updates during installation. Although it can be predownloaded, you will need Internet connectivity to get the WSUS and Software Update Point working.
