Chapter 22. All engines full steam ahead
You’ve come to the end of this book. You now know everything there is to know about Configuration Manager, and there’s nothing anyone else can teach you.
Did you spot the glaring inaccuracies in the previous statement? Good! ConfigMgr is as big as you care to make it, and there’s always more to learn. As you wrap up this phase of learning, this last chapter offers some direction on where you can go next to accelerate your progress toward becoming a ConfigMgr guru.
Many of the topics covered throughout this book have more-advanced applications that I’d have loved to have covered. But if I’d written everything I wanted to, the book would be twice as long and you’d get lower back strain from lugging it around.
The lab environment you’ve created has built the foundation for you to tackle more-advanced ConfigMgr functionality. Here’s a list of projects to get you started—each of these is involved and requires a fair amount of research and learning, but all are worth your while.
Your lab is a relatively simple one, with a single server servicing a single IP subnet. In more-complicated environments, you’re likely to have many disparate subnets across geographical regions, and these often need dedicated ConfigMgr services. Try extending your lab environment by doing the following: