Introduction

This three-day instructor-led intensive course provides the knowledge and skills necessary for SMS specialists to plan and deploy Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 into large enterprise environments.

Pre-Requisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Completed Course 2596, Managing Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 and Course 2279, Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure or have equivalent knowledge
• System engineers should also have strong working knowledge of:

1. IP addressing.
2. Windows 2003 core technologies.
3. Windows 2003 networking technologies and implementation.
4. Windows 2003 directory services technologies and implementation.

Outcomes

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Analyze business requirements for SMS
• Create and evaluate an SMS deployment plan
• Plan an SMS site hierarchy
• Install the Site hierarchy
• Configure a site system
• Discover SMS resources
• Install SMS clients
• Configure SMS site hierarchies
• Secure an SMS site
• Create a management and operations plan.