About this Course
The course focuses on configuration and administration in the Essentials 2010 console. The optional third day includes additional in depth information on Essentials 2010 architecture and troubleshooting, as well as management pack authoring.

At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Deploy System Center Essentials 2010 in a live environment.
Perform the initial configuration tasks required for full product functionality.
Configure and use the update management feature in Essentials to manage update deployment to client and server computers.
Use the software deployment feature to deploy and upgrade Windows applications, such as MS Office 2007.
Manage and configure virtualization hosts using the virtualization management feature in Essentials 2010.
Configure and tune application, server, client and network monitoring.
Modify and optimize Essentials 2010 configuration settings as needs change.

Course OutlineModule 1: Installing Essentials 2010
This module describes the architecture of System Center Essentials 2010. It goes on to discuss hardware and software requirements, as well as the Essentials 2010 installation process.
Lessons
Understand features, functionality and architecture of System Center Essentials 2010
Learn the prerequisites, hardware and software requirements for Essentials 2010 installation
Discuss Essentials upgrade and installation options, as well as common installation issues
Lab : Installing System Center Essentials 2010
Exercise 1: Join the Essentials 2010/Hyper-V host computer to the lab domain
Exercise 2: Install Essentials 2010
Exercise 3: Verify Your Essentials 2010 Installation
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the features and functionality available in Essentials 2010
Discuss the underlying architecture leveraged by Essentials
Describe the prerequisites required for installing Essentials
Explain upgrade options and identify unsupported configurations
Demonstrate how to install System Center Essentials 2010

Module 2: Configuring Essentials
This module explains how to perform the initial configuration tasks after installing System Center Essentials 21010.
Lessons
Understand how to perform initial product configuration tasks with the Configure Essentials Wizard
Learn how to perform additional configuration tasks, such as: adding managed virtualization hosts: importing management packs: configuring alert notification
Discuss how to troubleshoot common configuration problems
Lab : Configuring Essentials 2010
Exercise 1 Run the Configure Essentials Wizard
Exercise 2: Configure Global Settings in Essentials
Exercise 3: Deploy Agents to Domain-based Clients
Exercise 4: Deploy Agents to Workgroup-based Clients [OPTIONAL]
After completing this module, students will be able to: Identify the tasks that must be performed after installing Essentials 2010
Understand the available options in the Essentials configuration wizards
Understand the global settings that can be configured
Different methods to discover and install the Essentials Monitoring Agent on computers targeted for management
Configure virtualization hosts for management in Essentials
Import Management Packs
Configure Notification

Module 3: Managing Computers
This module explains how to prepare, add and group computers for management with Essentials 2010. It goes on to demonstrate how to retrieve settings and inventory of managed computers.
Lessons
Understand how to create and manage computer groups
Discuss how to access hardware and software inventory data
Explain the virtualization management tasks available in the Essentials console
Review the tasks and reports available in the Computers space
Lab : Managing Computers
Exercise 1 Create a Dynamic Group for Update and Software Deployment
Exercise 2: Create Computer Group Based on Computer Criteria
Exercise 3: View Hardware Inventory for a Managed Computer
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the features and functionality available in the Computer space
Explain options for creating computer group
Demonstrate how to retrieve hardware and software inventory
Discuss the virtualization management functions available from the Computers space
Describe reports accessible directly from the Computers space

Module 4: Managing Updates
The module explains how to approve and deploy updates with System Center Essentials 2010. It includes information on how to automate the update management process if desired.
Lessons
Understand the importance of managing updates and characteristics of a good update management plan
Learn how update management in Essentials 2010 can facilitate proactive and automated update management
Understand how to work with update management in Essentials 2010 and troubleshoot common issues with as update management
Lab : Configuring Update Management
Exercise 1: Add a Local Update
Exercise 2: Import 3rd Party Partner Catalog
Exercise 3: Import Content from Microsoft Update Catalog
Exercise 4: Configuring Multiple Auto-approvals
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the features and functionality available in the Updates space
Explain options for viewing and approving updates
Demonstrate how to automate approval and deployment of updates
Demonstrate how to verify the progress of update deployment

Module 5: Deploying Software
This module explains how to install, update and uninstall software to managed computers with System Center Essentials 2010.
Lessons
Understand how to install and uninstall software using Essentials 2010
Learn about the supported features, installation options and installer formats
Understand how to monitor deployment results and troubleshoot common issues
Lab : Deploying Software with Essentials
Exercise 1. Install Software for a Group of Computers
Exercise 2. Customize and Deploy Office 2007
Exercise 3. Uninstall an Application for a Specific Computer
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Explain Essentials software deployment features and functionality
Explain how to deploy software packages
Discuss options for customizing package installation
Upgrading and Uninstalling Software Packages
Describe how to monitor deployment results
Demonstrate how to troubleshoot software deployment

Module 6: Monitoring Concepts
This module explains how to configure, administer and optimize the monitoring functionality in Essentials to monitor Windows computers and network devices.
Lessons
Learn about management pack components and architecture
Explain how to target monitoring according to Microsoft best practices
Understand how to tune monitoring using overrides
Learn about the Client Network Device Monitoring in Essentials 2010
Lab : Monitoring Configuration and Tuning
Exercise 1. Discover an SNMP-enabled Device [OPTIONAL]
Exercise 2. Create an Unsealed Management Pack
Exercise 3. Create a Dynamically Populated Management Pack Group
Exercise 4. Create an Override
Exercise 5. Create an Agent Task
Exercise 6. Create a Custom Alert View
Exercise 7. Create a Custom Simple Windows Event Unit Monitor
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Discuss the architecture and components of management packs in Essentials
Describe how to use overrides to tune management packs
Explain best practices for targeting monitoring and overrides in Essentials
Demonstrate how to obtain new management packs and related documentation
Describe network and client monitoring functionality in Essentials

Module 7: Reporting
The module describes the architecture and functionality of the reporting feature in System Center Essentials 2010. It goes on to describe the data retention and grooming settings in the reporting feature.
Lessons
Understand Essentials 2010 reporting architecture, features and limitations
Learn about reports available in management packs for Essentials 2010
Learn how to produce reports in the Essentials console
Understand how database maintenance, grooming and backups are handled by Essentials
Lab : Producing Reports
Exercise 1: Create an Availability Report
Exercise 2: Create an Inventory Report
Exercise 3: Create an Update Deployment Report
Exercise 4: Create a Configuration Change Report
Exercise 5: Create an Alert Report
Exercise 6: Create an Event Analysis Report
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Explain the features included in reporting System Center Essentials 2010
Understand how to create a variety of reports offered in System Center Essentials 2010
Explain the differences between reporting in System Center Essentials and the enterprise Operations and Systems Management products offered by Microsoft
Understand the limitations of Essentials reporting and how to identify when transition to MS enterprise products may be appropriate
Describe the grooming and data retention for Essentials reporting data

Module 8: Virtualization Management
The module describes the architecture and functionality of the virtualization management feature in System Center Essentials 2010.
Lessons
Learn about the capabilities of the virtualization management in Essentials 2010
How to add and manage virtualization hosts for management with Essentials 2010
Understand the function and importance of Integration Services for virtual machine guests
Lab : Virtual Machine Management
Exercise 1: Change Virtual Machine Properties
Exercise 2: Add a Virtual Hard Disk to the Library
Exercise 3: Manage Virtual Machine Snapshots
Exercise 4: Install Virtual Guest Services on Virtual Machine
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Demonstrate how to add a virtualization host to Essentials for management
Describe supported virtualization platforms and scenarios
Recount the common management tasks available in the Essentials console
Discuss the importance and function Integration Services in virtualization management
Explain the function of Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)

Module 9: Virtual Machine Templates and Provisioning
This module describes how to create virtual machine templates to streamline the provisioning process. It goes on to explain the process for converting an existing VMware virtual machine to the Hyper-V platform.
Lessons
Understand the virtual machine provisioning and conversion options in Essentials 2010
Learn how to create and manage virtual machine templates with Essentials 2010
Understand the virtual network configuration options available in Essentials 2010
Learn how to perform a virtual machine migration (V2V) to convert VMware guests to the Hyper-v platform
Lab : Virtual Machine Provisioning and Migration
Exercise 1: Create a Virtual Machine Template
Exercise 2: Provision a Virtual Machine from a Template
Exercise 3: Convert an Existing Virtual Machine to Hyper-V
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Explain how virtual machine templates streamline the migration process
Demonstrate how to create, modify and delete virtual machine templates
Describe how to sysprep a virtual machine for use as a template
Demonstrate how to perform a virtual-to-virtual migration
Demonstrate how to find physical servers that are candidates for virtualization
Discuss how to convert a physical server to a Hyper-V guest

Module 10: Advanced Monitoring and Management Pack Authoring
This module describes the advanced monitoring functionality available in System Center Essentials 2010. You will also learn important management pack authoring concepts for creating custom management packs for your line-of-business applications.
Lessons
Understand advanced monitoring features in Essentials 2010, including, Self-tuning
Thresholds, Synthetic Transaction and Distributed Application Monitoring
Learn about management pack authoring concepts and methodology using the Essentials 2010 console
Lab : Management Pack Authoring
Exercise 1: Create a Custom Attribute
Exercise 2: Creating an Aggregate Rollup Monitor
Exercise 3. Create a Basic Service Monitor
Exercise 4. Create a Recovery
Exercise 5. Create a Custom Management Pack Group
Exercise 6. Create a Web Application Monitor
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the advanced monitoring functionality in Essentials, such as self-tuning threshold monitors, synthetic transaction monitoring and distributed application monitoring
Explain concepts related to management pack design, such as service and health models and their components
Discuss the requirements for implementing health rollup in a management pack
Demonstrate how to create custom monitoring in the Essentials console

Module 11: Advanced Troubleshooting and Log Analysis
This module covers the log files, tools and techniques to troubleshoot System Centers Essentials 2010 issues in depth. The troubleshooting processes for common scenarios related to Essentials features are described in detail.
Lessons
Understand how to identify and troubleshoot common issues in Essentials setup and configuration
Become familiar with log files and tools for troubleshooting client and server side issues
Learn how to perform detail error data collection and analysis for Essentials 2010
Lab : Producing Reports
Exercise 1: Troubleshoot Automatic Updates Client Communication
Exercise 2: Identify source cause of failures using Essentials Setup Logs
Exercise 3: Identify source cause of failures using WindowsUpdate.log
Exercise 4: Troubleshoot Software Deployment Failure
Exercise 5: Troubleshoot WinRM Communications
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Discuss common issues encountered when deploying and using Essentials
Describe which logs are of interest in troubleshooting a specific issue
Explain how to analyze a specific log to identify source cause of a problem
Demonstrate how to verify communication and configuration between Essentials and virtual machine hosts
Determine the source of inventory and deployment issues to managed computers
Demonstrate how to collect data for detailed analysis by Microsoft Support
Describe the grooming and data retention for Essentials reporting data

Module 12: Essentials Internals
This module presents information on Essentials core functions and integration with its foundational technologies (WSUS, SCVMM 2008 R2 and OpsMgr R2) in greater detail. It examines internal functions such as group synchronization behavior between Essentials and WSUS, WSUS certificates and how they are leveraged in Essentials, deployment and inventory functions.
Lessons
Understand how Essentials 2010 integrates with the some of the foundational technologies upon which it is based
Understand how prepare to recover an Essentials 2010 infrastructure after infrastructure or disaster
Learn how WSUS Certificates are leveraged in Essentials publishing and deployment processes
Learn about Essentials 2010 management pack rules in which important background tasks are implemented
Lab : Producing Reports
Exercise 1: Reset Essentials Configuration Settings and Re-run Configure Essentials Wizard
Exercise 2: Understanding Group Synchronization
Exercise 3: Run SCVMM 2008 MPS Reporting Tool
Exercise 4: Perform a diagnostic trace in Essentials 2010
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Discuss Essentials integration with foundational technologies and related key internal processes
Explain how scheduled agent deployment automates the computer discover and agent configuration process
Describe how software and hardware inventory are collected, and what data sources are included in inventory collection
Describe data that must be backed up in order to recover an Essentials installation after server failure
Discuss how Category Overrides are implemented to limit the amount of rules and monitors that are enabled in Essentials by default

Before attending this course, students must have:
Completion of Course 6430A, Managing and Maintaining Windows Server 2008 Servers, or have equivalent knowledge of administrative tasks.

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This course is intended for IT professionals working with or planning to use System Center Essentials 2010.

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