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This guide assumes you have installed SCCM 2007 SP1 and then configured it as outlined here in Part 1 you must then do the additional configuration outlined in Part 2.

Step 1. Configure Client Agents

open the SCCM administrator console and expand the site Management/site name/site settings, then select the Client Agents as below:



Double click on hardware Inventory client Agent on the right side and verify that it is enabled. Set the inventory schedule to 1 day (default is 7 days). Click ok to close.



For the Software Inventory agent, verify the schedule is set to 7 days.



Click on the inventory collection tab, and delete the default scan listed.



Click on the yellow star and add files of type *.exe



then click on Set beside location, select Variable or Path name and enter %ProgramFiles%\ as the program path location so that it only scans that area for EXE files, Make sure to remove the tick from the windows directory






Next you can enable the Advertised programs client agent , and under the General tab, verify that Enable software distribution to clients is enabled and select New Program notification icon opens Add or Remove Programs as per below screenshot.




Note: In the R2 release of ConfigMgr you will have an additional choice called Allow virtual application package advertisement

Now click on the notification tab and set it accordingly



Next we will configure the Computer Client Agent properties,

Failure to configure this correctly or failure to configure it will lead to a failure in Operating system deployment with problems such as this one

for Network Access Account we need to enter an account to be used by Configuration Manager 2007 client computers to communicate with network resources. We can use the SMSread account we created earlier (in Step 3 of this guide).



fill in the text you want displayed to your users in the Customization tab



leave the reminders tab as it is and then set our BITS settings like this



click apply and ok.

Set our Desired Configuration Management Agent schedule to 1 day



Let's leave Mobile device client agent settings as they are for now, and for Remote Tools client agent, set it as follows



add some permitted viewers (blank by default)



set your remote assistance settings to full control for both solicited and unsolicited remote assistance



We will leave Network Access Protection, Software Metering and Software updates Client agent as they are for now.

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Step 2. Client Installation Methods

In the left pane of SCCM configmgr, select Client installation methods and double click on Client Push Installation.
place a checkmark in Enable Client Push Installation to assigned resources and take note of the warning



and then set your client push properties as below



for Accounts, set the account to SMSadmin (this is fine for the lab environment, in production you should create a new user account such as SMSAdvCli and use that account for client installation only)

To successfully install the Configuration Manager 2007 client, the Windows user account used must have Local Administrative rights on the destination computer. If the install fails with all accounts in the list then the installation will be attempted using the computer account from the Configuration Manager 2007 site server. If the user account does not have Local Administrative permissions on the destination computer then the Client will not install.

[To grant a user local administrative permissions on a computer open up computer management, Local Users and Groups, Groups, Administrators and add the user you wish to be the local administrator].



Next click on the Advanced client tab and set your Installation Properties string to something like this

SMSSITECODE=WIN SMSCACHESIZE=8000

the above sets our SMS site code to WIN and the SMS cache size on the client to approx 8GB.

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Step 3. Configure Discovery methods

In the Discovery Methods section, select Heartbeat Discovery, and set the discovery to 1 hour (as this is a lab, this will discover our clients quickly).



For the below options, enable discovery and then set as follows


* Active Directory System Group Discovery 1 hour
* Active Directory Security Group Discovery 1 hour
* Active Directory System Discovery 1 hour
* Active Directory User Discovery 1 hour


Note: You may want to set these values to 1 minute in a lab environment.



you should also check the Run discovery as soon as possible is ticked for all of the above.

We also need to tell SCCM where to look for these computers and that is done in each of the 4 AD options above,

So bring up the Active Directory System Group Discovery properties and click on the Yellow star to add an Active Directory container

In the New Active Directory Continer window, make sure Local Domain is selected and click ok.



when the Select New Container window comes up, click ok.



now your container is selected click ok to exit and do the same actions for each of the 3 remaining AD discovery methods.




That's it you are done !! you can now test your SCCM server by adding clients to your Windows 2008 domain.

Below are some screenshots of the Configuration Manager client installed using this guide on a Windows Vista Ultimate machine (test-pc).

Here's the control panel with some new icons from SCCM




and here is the Configuration Manager client General tab



the components tab...



the Actions tab...



the Advanced tab...





If you have pushed out the client install and you don't see the Configuration Manager listed in control panel, then make sure you are doing the client push installs with a user that has local administrative rights on the client pc, plus for troubleshooting check c:\windows\system32\ccmsetup and look at any LOG files present for errors.

Configuring Vistas Firewall:-

If the configuration Manager client is NOT INSTALLING on your Vista clients then verify that the firewall rules are set to allow SCCM traffic, or disable the firewall for testing...).




Next step > Create a package and then a program and advertise it to a collection and then distribute it


The guide covers:-

Creating the Package
Creating a Program for the package
Advertising the Package
Creating and updating distribution point

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