Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
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Group Policy based installation
This method involves using Group Policy based
software deployment to deploy the Configuration Manager agent.
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Logon scripts
When you use this method, a logon script installs the Configuration
Manager client software.
To install the Configuration Manager client using the client push method, you need to
have first configured computer discovery and the client push installation account. To config-
ure these elements, perform the following steps:
1.
In the Administration workspace of the Configuration Manager console, click the Sites
node under Site Configuration.
On the ribbon, click Client Installation Settings and then click Client Push Installation.
2.
On the Accounts tab of the Client Push Installation Properties dialog box, click New,
and then click New Account.
3.
On the Windows User Account dialog box, specify the credentials of a user account
that has the rights to perform agent installation on each computer.
4.
In the Administration workspace, click Discovery Methods. Click Active Directory Sys-
tem Discovery, and click Properties.
5.
On the General tab of the Active Directory System Discovery Properties dialog box,
click Enable Active Directory System Discovery.
6.
Next to Active Directory Containers, click New.
7.
On the Active Directory Container dialog box, click Browse. On the Select New
Container, select the container that will form the basis of your discovery search. For
example, select the domain container if you want to locate all computers in a particular
domain.
8.
Specify an account that has permissions to search Active Directory. Figure 2-16 shows a
scan of Active Directory that will search the Adatum.internal domain using the Ada-
tum\Administrator account.
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