Lesson 1: Introduction to System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
Lesson 2: Overview of the System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Architecture
Lesson 3: Managing Configuration Manager by Using Configuration Manager Administration Tools
Lesson 4: Using Tools for Monitoring and Troubleshooting a Configuration Manager Site
Lesson 1: Introduction to System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
Asset management. These tools enable you to gather and use information about a network’s users and devices.
Change management. These tools enable you to deploy and manage applications in a network, identify and remediate devices that do not have correct configurations, upgrade existing client systems or deploy new client systems.
Administrative Features. These tools enable you to monitor an environment that you manage with Configuration Manager, in addition to the tasks that you perform within that environment.
New Features Provided with an Installation of System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
- Support for clients that run Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows RT, Windows 8.1 RT, iOS, Mac OS X, and Android
- Support for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 to host site system roles
- Support for SQL Server 2012 to host Configuration Manager databases
- Support for merging of System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager hierarchies
- New site system roles for the certificate registration point
- Bulk reassignment of clients to alternate primary sites
- Configuration Manager Windows PowerShell cmdlets