Hey Checkyourlogs Fans,
Our team of Expert Authors has had an early start to 2018 as we already have our first book published. This time we looked at the complexities of deploying Microsoft’s Configuration Manager with PKI and documented the heck out of it (220 pages worth). This is also the first time we are trying Leanpub as a publishing vehicle. It has a great platform that let’s us get content out a lot faster than traditional mediums. We are in no means giving up on Amazon this just get you the content a lot faster.
We will be publishing with both moving forward you will just see the early releases and previews of the books here in more of a chapter by chapter style. The best part about Leanpub is that you get to set your price for the books. This is a lot different than having a single fixed price on Amazon which is what we are used to. So hopefully this works out and we can sell more than just free downloadable copies of our books here.
You can grab your copy here: https://leanpub.com/deployingconfigurationmanagercurrentbranchwithpki-stepbystep
In this book we have walked through a step by step lab build in our Azure Tenant that is running a Nested Hyper-V Host. We should you how to build everything up from scratch and have included all of our build scripts as part of this book.
Here is a sneak peek of what you can expect from it:
We really hope that you enjoy this and please as always feedback is very welcome.
Thanks,
Dave
Thank you for this free book. Very good job.
I used it for my first steps with Azure and for testing PKI certificates.
However, I have some comments.
First, you said that the lab is designed to be built on a Hyper_V host with a minimun of 16GB.
I created a 32GB VM in Azure, and when I ran your script, the CM01 VM doesn’t process well, because I don’t have enough RAM.
After I manually closed some VM (Client01, CLient02), the script process normally.
Maybe you can setup “Dynamic Memory”, or close some VM after they are successfully created.
You said that user SVC_SCCM_CP have automaticcaly been created in AD with Bigdemo.PS1 script. The creation of this user is not in your script.
Page 61 and 74, In the Duplicate Template dialog box, ensure that Windows 2003 Server, Enterprise Edition is selected, and then choose OK.
It’s only Windows 2003 Server, not Windows 2003 Server, Enterprise Edition
Typo :Page 66, and verity its installation, should be : and VERIFY
Using Prerequisites Tools. The link does’nt work anymore. Version 3.02 is availabe
Why don’t you created the System Management Container with this tool too? You manually created it on P134
Install WSUS Role
P94. Complete WSUS Instlallation is not possible at this point. There is No SQL server installed yet.
Typo : Page 118, Managemetn Studio, should be MANAGEMENT Studio
SSMS download link doesn’t work anymore. A new version (17.5) is available.
P123. If available configure CM01 with 16 GB of RAM. But at the beginning, you said 16 GB for the entire lab as a minimun. It’s definitivly not enough RAM.
P145, MDT build 8450 is now available
P148, Configure No_SMS_On_Drive.sms, can also be done via the Prerequisites Tools.
P188, (chapter 8), Configure Client Push Installation Settings and P190, (chapter 9), are the same.
Thank you and good job.
Eric thank you very much for the feedback I will review this and see what I can do about a quick publish revision. It is because of community members like you that this platform and way of delivering content is so great. Thank you!
Incredible guide!!
One question, on page 48, do you use the following settings as default or can they be Windows Server 2012 as an example?
7. On the Compatibility tab
verify CA is set to
Windows Server 2003
and Certificate recipient
is Windows XP / Server
2003