Reddit reviews System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager: Mastering the Fundamentals
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Don't go in blindly, there are various ways to setup SCCM the "wrong way" that might not be apparent until you try and grow the environment later on and find yourself dealing with issues you could have easily avoided.
While a year or two out of date now so missing some of the newer features and Win 10 info, this is still a great read on how to get the base install and features up and running in a sane manner:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/9187445085/
Another thing I would also suggest (also covered in this book), is create Distribution Point Groups from the start (even if you only have 1 DP), and then deploy all content to that DP Group, this way if you ever grow and add a 2nd or 3rd DP it will automatically get all your content without any extra work once you add it to the group.
A final tip is to do with creating master images for deployment, for this I would strongly recommend you dont use SCCM for image creation as it is so fiddly and not helpful at all, instead you should spin up a separate MDT deployment and use that for image creation and then copy the WIM files over to SCCM for deployment.
Get Kent Agerlund's book: https://www.amazon.com/System-Center-2012-Configuration-Manager/dp/9187445085
If you are more of a video guy: check out the SCCM videos on Pluralsight. If you do enough Google searching: you should be able to find a 3 or 6 month trial code or just use the 14 day built-in trial. The courses they have on SCCM are pretty decent.
I found this book invaluable: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9187445085/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I also found this one useful: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9187445166/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The top will will show you how to build a SCCM site from scratch. It'll walk you through what everything does and why.
Grab a copy of Kent Agerlund's book. It says 2012 R2 but not much has changed. The Kindle version is free.
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Someone recommended me the book System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager: Mastering the Fundamentals by Kent Agerlund.
I haven't gotten around to looking in it yet, though, as we already have it set up, so this isn't my personal recommendation, just a tip.
Also check out the reviews for the book. People seem overall very impressed.
https://www.amazon.com/System-Center-2012-Configuration-Manager/dp/9187445085/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22635594-system-center-2012-r2-configuration-manager
There is an excellent book i used. https://www.amazon.com/System-Center-2012-Configuration-Manager/dp/9187445085/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1517507778&sr=8-3&keywords=system+center. It walks you through step by step and you get to learn along the way.