Topic last updated—November 2007
This topic provides sample scenarios for planning and deploying a new installation of Configuration Manager.
Preplanning for New Configuration Manager Installations
The following scenario demonstrates how customers can complete the necessary preplanning phase before beginning the planning or deployment phases for new Configuration Manager installations.
In this example, Don, the project manager of Woodgrove Bank, assigned individual roles and responsibilities to all team members during the planning team’s project kickoff meeting to discuss the project and its goals. They also set business objectives, technical objectives, and project milestones.
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The planning team analyzes Woodgrove Bank’s technical needs and identifies their business objectives for deploying Configuration Manager. Don meets with key members to ensure a thorough understanding of Woodgrove Bank’s network and computing environment and that it was properly documented. Don develops a test lab closely resembling the production environment by using the supporting documentation. |
Planning for New Configuration Manager Installations
The following scenario demonstrates how customers can complete the necessary planning steps before beginning the deployment phase of new Configuration Manager installations.
During the planning phase, Don’s team had the following major goals:
- Complete the required planning documentation
requirements.
- Define and validate a proposed hierarchy
design. This design must include planning for the
Configuration Manager features to support the business and
technical goals defined in the preplanning phase, as well as the
hardware and software requirements for the proposed design.
- Identify and coordinate with installation and
support teams who are required to complete the deployment process
but are not part of the planning team.
- Prepare an overall project deployment plan
and schedule.
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Don completes the documentation requirements for the Configuration Manager specific planning to begin the hierarchy-planning process. |
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Don’s team learns more about Configuration Manager through the online documentation to aid in their planning. The team decides on the initial hierarchy design and the features they require to support their business and technical objectives, as defined in the preplanning phase. |
Fundamentals of Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Manager Planning and Deployment Overview Configuration Manager Single Site Planning and Deployment Configuration Manager Tasks for Planning a Single Site Choose Between Primary Sites, Secondary Sites, and Branch Distribution Points |
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Don decides to deploy Configuration Manager native mode sites to create the most secure management environment possible after discussing the different site mode options for Configuration Manager with key players on his team. |
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Don’s team identified needed hardware and software upgrades as part of their planning by comparing their existing infrastructure to the infrastructure required to support their Configuration Manager site hierarchy plan. |
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Don identifies the administrators external to the planning team that are needed to assist in the deployment process and begins early coordination with them. He begins discussions on the following:
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Extending the Active Directory Schema for Configuration Manager |
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The last step in the planning phase for Don’s team is to create a schedule and a detailed deployment project plan for their proposed Configuration Manager 2007 hierarchy deployment. |
Deploying a New Configuration Manager Installation
The following scenario demonstrates how customers can complete the necessary deployment phase of new Configuration Manager installations.
The planning team’s goal for deploying Configuration Manager in their production environment was to perform a swift and successful deployment with minimum interruption to Woodgrove Bank’s users.
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Don’s team learns more about Configuration Manager deployment processes by reading the online documentation to begin the hierarchy deployment process. |
Configuration Manager Tasks for Deploying a Single Site |
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Don tests and validates the deployment plan in the test lab using the simple Setup option. The results of the test lab deployment are analyzed for any necessary changes or refinement to the deployment plan. |
Test lab created during the preplanning phase. |
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Because native mode was selected as the site mode for their new installation, Don ensures that Ray deployed the necessary PKI infrastructure required before beginning the production deployment. |
Deploying the PKI Certificates Required for Native Mode Administrator Checklist: Deploying the PKI Requirements for Native Mode |
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After refining the deployment plan with test lab deployment results, Don begins the deployment by conducting a small pilot project using the custom setup option. Using the documentation previously created during the planning phase and the results of the pilot project, Don creates a checklist to follow when installing a new site. During the production environment deployment, Don closely monitors help desk call activity to ensure that users are not adversely affected during the deployment. |
A small, controlled segment of the production network. |