Planning and Installation Guide

Published: October 25, 2006

This guide is part of Microsoft SMS 2003 Desired Configuration Monitoring (DCM) 2.0.

It explains how to plan and complete the DCM project and describes project planning, timelines, team roles, and other project management information.

This planning and installation guide provides:

An overview of DCM.

Information about the different components of DCM.

The process flow to correctly plan, build, and deploy DCM.

Information about installing DCM.

Introduction

Solution Frameworks

Solution Components

Solution Architecture

Implementing the DCM Solution

Appendix A: Rules Reference

Appendix B: Substitution Reference

Appendix C: Command-Line Syntax

Appendix D: Report Reference

Appendix E: DCM SMS Reports

Appendix F: Windows Vista-based Computer as an SMS Client


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