A very important part of maintaining a healthy and functional system is to ensure its integrity through backup and recovery processes. All production systems should have established backup and recovery procedures in place and should have System Center Configuration Manager 2012 as well. You must maintain data integrity and currency, and Configuration Manager provides a number of maintenance tasks that assist you with this.

Information is the most important asset belonging to most organizations today. To ensure information integrity, confidentiality and resource availability are the most important values for effective systems management. This chapter will discuss the role of Configuration Manager in securing your environment. It presents the new role-based administration model and takes into consideration the proper delegation of administrative roles in order to reduce the risk of an accidental misuse of rights. Critical consideration should be given to protect...