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About This Course

This three-day instructor-led intensive course provides the knowledge and skills necessary for SMS specialists to plan and deploy Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 into large enterprise environments.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for systems engineers with one to three years of experience supporting multiple desktop and server computers running Microsoft Windows in medium to large enterprise organizations, and who have a need to plan an SMS deployment.

Prerequites

After completing this module, students must have:

• Completed Course 2596, Managing Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, or have equivalent knowledge
• Completed Course 2279, Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure, or have equivalent knowledge

System engineers should also have strong working knowledge of:

• IP addressing. This is covered in Course 2151, Microsoft Windows 2000 Network and Operating System Essentials.
• Windows 2003 core technologies. This is covered in Course 2273, Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment.
• Windows 2003 networking technologies and implementation. This is covered in Course 2277, Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Services.
• Windows 2003 directory services technologies and implementation. This is covered in Course 2279, Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Analyze business requirements for SMS
• Create and evaluate an SMS deployment plan
• Plan an SMS site hierarchy
• Install the Site hierarchy
• Configure a site system
• Discover SMS resources
• Install SMS clients
• Configure SMS site hierarchies
• Secure an SMS site
• Create a management and operations plan