You are an Enterprise administrator for contoso.com. The corporate network of the company consists of a single Active Directory domain. All the servers in the domain run Windows Server 2008 and all client computers run Windows Vista.
The domain has 100 servers and 5,000 client computers. You have been assigned the task to recommend an application deployment strategy for the network. While designing the strategy, you need to ensure that the applications deployments must be scheduled to occur after office hours and must only be deployed to the client computers that meet the minimum hardware requirements.
Besides, the detailed reports on the success or failure of the application deployments must be generated. Which of the following options would you choose to accomplish the desired goal?
A.
Use Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007
B.
Use Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007
C.
Use Windows Software Update Services (WSUS)
D.
Deploy applications by using Group Policy
E.
None of the above
Explanation:
To recommend an application deployment strategy for the network, you need to implement Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007.
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 is the next version of Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003. Configuration Manager 2007 contributes to a more effective IT department by enabling secure and scalable operating system and application deployment and desired configuration management, enhancing system security, and providing comprehensive asset management of servers, desktops, and mobile devices.
SCCM 2007’s new maintenance, configuration-tracking and updated reporting features make it a must-have for large Windows sites
SCCM sports a new feature called Maintenance Windows that lets administrators schedule the best day and time for patches and updates for specific sets of computers and servers.