In Part 1, the discussion was about gathering information about the people who will be impacted by, or will play a part in impacting, your System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012 project rollout. In Part 2 I will outline what kind of information you need to collect about your network topology and your Active Directory configuration.. I'm regularly asked to create either a local or physical diagram of a client's System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) environment. Since these diagrams are very useful, I'm going to tell you what my secret is… SMSMap! What is SMSMap? It is a tool created by Jeff Tondt that connects with your SMS / CM site server and creates a.
SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager) is a tool developed by Microsoft to manage systems. It was initially released in 1994 and it was known as SMS (Systems Management Server).. There are different topologies available for the configuration manager. One of them is the CAS topology. It consists of the following components: CAS (Central.. Before installing the first site of a new System Center Configuration Manager hierarchy, you should understand the available topologies for Configuration Manager, the available types of sites and their relationships with each other, and the scope of management each site type provides.. (see Fundamental concepts for content management in.