SCCM 2012 - Individual Servers

[garethEds]

Morning all,

 

The LEA are finally moving ahead with their centralised installation of SCCM. It seems they will be delegating access to our part of the OU and giving us access to the management console etc.

 

We have our own MDT and WSUS server and have a software deployment share on one of our other servers.

 

My question is - how would I be able to configure the central installation to use local servers? Did that make sense? I don't want to use the LEA WSUS server for example. I realise they would have to set this up - but can it be done? This information could affect other schools in the LEA so it would be handy if possible.

 

Finally - does anyone have recommendations of websites/books for SCCM? Looking to get my teeth into the deployment side after spending so long with MDT - want the zero touch option :-)

 

Cheers

 

Gareth

[gjefferies]

Hi,

Your LEA will probably create a boundary in SCCM for your network and your local MDT server would probably become a Distribution point (DP) and PXE Point for your network, Storing things like apps, windows images, updates etc.

Your WSUS server will probably will become redundant and you will select the updates to deploy from the sccm console (From their WSUS/Software Update server) and these will be packaged up on your local DP.

 

The Microsoft Virtual Academy is a good source for free SCCM training, i've also used CBT Nuggets.

 

Cheers

Gareth