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Operating system deployment-At the start of the system's life cycle is the installation of the core operating system.

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 SP2 has hundreds of features and functions that an IT administrator can leverage as part of their system configuration and management practices some of the major features in the product are as follows: Major Features of System Center Configuration Manager This concept, technically called Desired Configuration Management (DCM), can be audited and reports can be generated to show security officers and compliance auditors that standards are enforced throughout the data center and throughout workstation systems across an entire organization. If a patch or update goes out to one system of a configuration type, then all systems of that configuration type are updated at the same (or relatively same) time.

Rather, policies are established to update all systems of a similar functional role to be upgraded or updated the same. In fact, SCCM has additional components that ensure that the systems, once deployed, maintain the consistency by preventing users from updating systems using unsupported or unique update parameters. With the template-based installation, the organization can depend on consistency in build configuration for like servers, like desktops, and like laptops throughout the enterprise. Once a template is created, all systems of similar function can have the exact same template used to build and configure the system with only the unique server name or other identifier being different from system to system. The templates are created by the IT personnel to meet specific business, security, and functional application needs of the organization. Rather than having each and every workstation, laptop, and server built from scratch in an ad hoc manner with configuration settings based on the individual desires of the IT professional building the system, SCCM uses templates in the build process. System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 SP2 helps maintain consistency in system configuration and management. Business Solutions Addressed by System Center Configuration Manager

Figure 1.1 The System Center Configuration Manager console.