I’m about 25% way through a whitepaper entiled "An Introduction to Configuration Manager 2007". In it I breakdown the changes from SMS 2003 to CM 2007. I don’t assume the reader is an SMS buff so I also am doing a high level pass on the components and design concepts of CM 2007. Low level detail and recommendations still are not available seeing as it’s still a Beta 1 product, but documentation does refer you to the first 4 chapters of the SMS 2003 online guide. From what I’ve seen, this is indicative of little change in core functionality – lots of other stuff has changed/improved/been added. I’m also going to document a typical, single server install.
This will be the first in a series of documents. They’ll take some time seeing as I’m doing them after work. The other docs will break down other components of CM 2007, e.g. Software Update Management, Branch Distribution Points, etc.
This first document is taking much longer than I expected. Looking back on it, I have no idea how I typed up my SMS 2003 guide in 2 days.
Update (13/Feb/2007 23:06GMT): I’m about 60% through the document and just finished page 43. Hopefully I’ll post it before the end of next week.