MCSE 2003 Exam 70-086
Module 1: Overview of Systems Management Server 2003
- Where SMS fits in the Windows Server System
 The Operations Infrastructure Technologies of the Windows Server System
Issue that SMS Helps Administrators Address
- Describing How SMS 2003 Features Provide Change and Configuration
The primary Features of SMS
Administrative Support Features of SMS
Mixed-Version Hierarchy Considerations
- Explaining SMS Hierarchies
What Is an SMS site?
What Is the SMS Hierarchy?
The Key Components of an SMS Site
Services that Site System Provide
The Role of an SMS Client
What Are Collections?
Considerations for Creating Multiple Sites
How Information Flows From Site to Site
- Explaining SMS Site and Roaming Boundaries
What Are SMS Site Boundaries?
How Legacy and Advanced Clients Use Site Boundaries
What Are Roaming Boundaries?
Module 2: Exploring SMS site Architecture
- Introduction to the SMS Site Server ¤¶
Components of a Site Server
SMS Security Modes
The purpose of Extending the Active Directory Schema
Tasks You Can Perform During SMS Setup
- Exploring the SMS Administrator Console and the SMS 2003 toolkit 1
How to the use SMS Administrator Console to Explore a Site
How to Locate and View SMS Site Server Folders
The Tools in the SMS 2003 Toolkit 1
- Explaining the Role of Active Directory in SMS 2003
Advantages of Extending the Active Directory Schema
How Active Directory Is Used for Locating Sites and Site System
The Active Directory Discovery Methods
- Explaining How SMS Uses Dependent Technologies
What SMS Uses Internet Information Services For
What SMS Uses Background Intelligent Transfer Service For
What SMS Uses Windows Management Instrumentation For
Module 3: Preparing to Deploy the SMS Clients
- Introduction to SMS Clients
Introduction to SMS Clients
Discovering Resources
Managing the Site Systems That Support Client Installation and Client/Server Communication
What is Resource Discovery?
SMS Resource Discovery Methods
Network Discovery Options
Guidelines for Enabling and Configuring Active Directory User, System, and System Group Discovery
Guidelines for Enabling and Configuring Heartbeat Discovery
- Managing the Site Systems That Support Client Installation and Client/Server Communication
The Site System Used to Support SMS Clients
Guidelines for Configuring and Deploying a Server Locator Point
Guidelines for Configuring and Deploying a Client Access Point
Guidelines for Configuring and Deploying a Management Point
How to Create an SMS Site System Diagram Using Network Trace
Module 4: Deploying SMS Clients
- Deploying the Advanced Client
What Are the Advanced Client Installation Files?
Installation Methods for the Advanced Client
What is the Client Push Installation Method?
What is the Logon Script-initiated Client Installation Method?
How Successful Installation Is Confirmed
- Deploying the Legacy Client
Installation Methods for the Legacy Client
Considerations for Automatic installation of the Legacy Client Using the SMS Administrator console (client Push Installation Method)
Guidelines for Installing the Legacy Client by Initiating a Program File at the Client Computer
Configuration Tasks to Perform Before Installing the Legacy Client
How to Installation Legacy Clients
Log Files that Confirm Legacy Client Installation
- Troubleshooting Problems When Installing SMS Clients
What Are Status Messages?
Where Are Status Messages Located?
Log Files That Help Isolate installation Problems
Common Causes of Advanced Client Installation Problems
Module 5: Collecting Inventory and Software Metering
- Introduction to Inventory Collection
What Is Inventory Collection?
Uses of Hardware and Software Inventory
The Key Components of Inventory Collection
The Inventory Collection Process
- Collecting Inventory Information
How Enable the Hardware and Software Inventory Client Agents
How to Force Inventory Collection
How to View the Results or Inventory Collection Using the resource Explorer
How to Configure Software Inventory Rules
How to Configure File Collection
- Extending Inventory Collection
What Is the SMS_def.mof File?
How to Modify the SMS_def.mof File
What Are MIF Files?
How to Enable or Disable MIF File Collection
How to Create MIF Files
How to Submit a NOIDMIF File to the Client
- Configuring Software Metering
What Is Software Metering?
The Components of Software Metering
How Software Metering Works
How to Create a Software Metering Rule
How to Configure the Software Metering Client Agent
How to Verify the installation and Operation of Software Metering
Module 6: Querying and Reporting Data
- Introduction to the Architecture of Data and Status Queries
Introduction to the Architecture of Data and Status Queries
Creating and Running Queries
Configuring and Deploying a Reporting Point
Configuring and Running Reports
Creating and Running Dashboards
- Creating and Running Queries
How to Create and Run a Data Query
How to Create and Run a Status Message Query
How to Export and Import Queries
What Are Security Rights?
How to Configure Class and Instance Security on Queries
How to View WQL query Statements
Analogous Concepts in SQL Server and WMI
- Configuring and Deploying a Reporting Point
What Is a Reporting Point?
The SMS Reporting Architecture
What Is Report Viewer?
How to Enable a Reporting Point
Methods for Verifying the Installation of the Reporting Point
Reporting Point Security
- Configuring and Running Reports
- What Is an SMS Report?
Report Categories for Predefined Reports
How to Filter the List of Reports
How to Create a Link to another Report
How to Export and Import Report
Module 7: Preparing an SMS Site for Software Distribution
- Explaining How SMS Distributes Software
The Benefits of SMS Software Distribution
How the Client Handles Software Distribution
Administrative Tasks involved in the Software Distribution Process
The Process of Configuring Site Settings in Software Distribution
The SMS Objects Used to Distribute Software
- Managing Distribution Points
The Benefits of BITS, Delta Replication, and Compression In Managing Network Performance
Guidelines for Configuring a Site System to Be a Distribution Point
What is a Distribution Point Group?
How to Configure a Distribution Point and a Distribution Point Group
- Configuring Software Distribution and the Advertised Programs Client Agent
What Is the Advanced Client Network Access Account?
Software Distribution Component Settings that Administrators Typically Specify
Advertised Programs Client Agent Settings that Administrators Typically Specify
How to Verify the Download of Agent Policy on the Advanced Client
Module 8: Managing Software Distribution
- Configuring Software Distribution Objects Using a Software Distribution Methodology
 How Software Distribution Objects Are Created
What Is a Collection?
What Do Packages and Programs Do?
What Are Advertisements?
- Creating and Configuring Collections
How to Create and Configure Collections
How to Verify the Updating of Collections with the SMS Administrator Console and Server Log Files
How to Create a Collection with a Direct Membership Rule
How to Create a Collection with a Rule Based on a Query
How to Create a Subcollection
How Collections Are Propagated Down an SMS Hierarchy
- Creating and Configuring Packages
How to Create a Package and Configure Its Properties
Packages configuration Options
How to Create a Program
How to Distribute Packages to Distribution Points
- Creating and Configuring Advertisements and Managing Software Installation at the Client
How to Create an Advertisement
What Are the Advertisement Configuration Options?
How to Retrieve User and Machine Policy
How the Client Run Advertised Programs
- Monitoring Software Distribution
Standard Reports for Software Distribution
Methods to Monitor the Software Distribution Process
Locations of Software Distribution Log Files
Module 9: Implementing SMS Software Update Tools and Managing Update Deployment
- Explaining How the SMS Software Updates Process Works
How SMS is Used to Manage Software Updates
Differences in Software Update Management for Windows Update Services and SMS 2003
How SMS Determines Which Software Updates Are Needed
- Installing the Software Update Scanning Tools
What Are the Software Update Scanning Tools?
How to Install the Software Update Scanning Tools
SMS Objects Created by the Software Update Scanning Tools
- Performing Software Update Inventory
How to Verify the Software Update Inventory Results
How to Distribute Software Updates
Module 10: Using Remote Tools for Client Suppor
- Introduction to remote Tools
What Is SMS Remote Tools?
Tools in the SMS Remote Tools Suite
How the Windows-Based Remote Support Tools integrate with SMS
- Configuring the Remote Tools Client Agent
What Is the Remote Tools Client Agent ?
How to Enable the Remote Tools Client Agent
Guidelines for Configuring General Properties of the Remote Tools Client Agent
Guidelines for Configuring Security Options of the Remote Tools Client Agent
Guidelines for Configuring Policy Options of the Remote Tools Client Agent
Notification Options for the Remote Tools Client Agent
Guidelines for Configuring the Advanced Options of the Remote Tools Client Agent
- Using SMS Remote Tools in Troubleshooting
The SMS Remote Tools Toolbar: Monitor and Control Components
The SMS Remote Tools Toolbar: Diagnostics Components
Guidelines for Troubleshooting SMS Remote Tools
Module 11: Working with SMS Hierarchiest
- Introduction to the SMS Site Hierarchy
The Two Types of Sites that SMS Provides
The Function of Primary Sites in a Hierarchy
The Function of Secondary Sites in a Hierarchy
Guidelines for Managing Network Traffic
- Configuring Site Communications
The Roles of Senders in Site-to-Site Communications
Types of Senders and the Connectivity They Support
How Senders Work With Other SMS Components to Send and Receive Data
What Is a Site Address?
How to Attach a Child Primary Site to a Parent Primary Site
- Installing a Secondary Site Server
How to Prepare a Primary Site for Secondary Site Installation
Methods for Installing a Secondary Site
How to Install a Secondary Site and Verify Installation
- Managing Roaming Clients in an SMS Hierarchy
What Are Roaming Boundaries?
The Difference Between Local Roaming Boundaries and Remote Roaming Boundaries
The Difference Between Regional Roaming and Global Roaming
- What Is a Resident Management Point?
What Is a Protected Distribution Point?
How to Configure Protected Distribution Points and Proxy Management Points
Module 12: Performing Site Maintenance, Backup, and Recovery Tasks
- Performing Site Maintenance
The Most Commonly Used Predefined Site Maintenance Tasks
Predefined Maintenance Tasks Associated with Client Data
How to Configure Predefined Site Maintenance Tasks
How to Create a Customized SQL Command
- Performing an SMS Site Backup
How the SMS Backup Architecture Works
Organizational Considerations for SMS Backup
What Is the Backup Control File?
How to Prepare for a Backup
What Is the Afterbackup.bat file?
Additional Tasks to Perform After a Site Backup
The Process of Recovering an SMS Site
What Is the SMS Recovery Expert?
What Is the SMS Site repair Wizard?
The Role of Site Reset in the Recovery Process
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