Any SCCM Desktop Build Managers\Software Deployment Managers here?

We use SCCM here and it's very far from drag and drop. We (developers) work closely with the SCCM team to ensure that the whole suite of apps and updates work as expected, we cannot afford any downtime of any systems, so that includes staggered rollouts and coordination, together with troubleshooting failures, which could be ANY application failing to deploy for ANY reason.

The off-the-shelf Microsoft stuff is easier, but the bespoke stuff we use is less so, and we have a bunch of different deployment methods too, click-once, xcopy, registry, citrix.

Entry salary "here" is 40-50k, probably up to high 60s with a few more years experience...
 
Wow! I wish I could dedicate my whole day to SCCM and get some of the wages mentioned :p

It is definitely not 'drag and drop' Gilly, and all too easy to cause big problems if you're not concentrating.
 
Been in the IT industry for 12 years (Infrastructure/desktop) and have never heard application packaging described as drag and drop before...
 
Sounds fairly bang on to me, assuming this isnt for a big pharma or bank where i would expect more.

SCCM is pretty much my life within IT over the last couple of years, so i am up to date.
 
Jez said:
Sounds fairly bang on to me, assuming this isnt for a big pharma or bank where i would expect more.

SCCM is pretty much my life within IT over the last couple of years, so i am up to date.
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Interesting to know Jezza, didn't know you are an SCCM guy :)

It's for a large Security Firm, based in CL
 
gambitt said:
Been in the IT industry for 12 years (Infrastructure/desktop) and have never heard application packaging described as drag and drop before...
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Not even for deployment?

SDO, TNG, Radia, Bladelogic... All drag and drop delivery methods.

I was a drag n drop monkey myself many moons ago.
 
SCCM isn't purely about deployment, although it is very powerful at doing it if configured and tested properly.

People overlook the auditing side too easily, mine even reports HDD bad blocks on clients to a report so we can replace drives before they fail etc. AD problems so they can be resolved before they become a problem and of course hardware changes so we can see if anyone is nicking kit! Think I've got about 600 reports available to me at the moment on 2007R2.
 
I doubt you'd get 40k for what's basically WDS. Maybe if you're talking SCCM 2012 with the multi sites and the software inventory and whatnot. We're rolling 2012 out at the moment and it's a vast improvement and will push salaries up. But not that much for such a simple implementation of it. Good to know though, especially if you get a chance to learn the whole suite. There's SC2012 jobs for around 70k if you have the knowledge.
 
As has been said as its a large co, central London and more than just adding machines to collections (Can tell I've been out the game for a while isn't it user centric now?) I'd have thought 40k is more than doable.

Get into consultancy with sccm (somewhere like 1E) and you can get a very nice wage indeed.

Thinking back I did enjoy the work a lot, shame not doing it anymore really :(
 
Security nowadays, when I was in the sccm job the security guy left so they got me to do that as well which is the road I ended up going down.

But for around 6 or 7 years I was pretty much an SMS/SCCM person, was pretty good at packaging back in the day :)
 
Security Architect or something? Or more process/red tape driven?

First one, don't mind you. Second one you're the bane of my life :D

I used SMS 1.2 and SMS 2 in the long days past. Powerful tool for its time.
 
I originally used SMS2003 (had a course on it when I was 18) and as I was getting to grips with it got made redundant. I'm now 'the' SCCM guy at work, we are on 2007 R3 and looking to move to 2012 soon.

Difficult when you have 25 secondary sites to handle as well :o

Ah well, all good fun!
 
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