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Using Configuration Manager 2007 to
Perform Your Most Common and
Critical Desktop Management Tasks
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager comprehensively assesses, deploys, and updates servers, client computers, and devices – across physical, virtual, distributed and mobile environments. This course will take IT implementers down the path of understanding how Configuration Manager 2007 can be used to perform common tasks such as Operating System deployment, software distribution and update, asset tracking and intelligence, client health reporting and management, security, and network access protection.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/cm/ff597934.aspx