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Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook

By : Andreas Baumgarten
Book Image

Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook

By: Andreas Baumgarten

Overview of this book

Whether you are an IT manager, an administrator, or security professional who wants to learn how Microsoft Security Compliance Manager and Microsoft System Center can help fulfil compliance and security requirements, this is the book for you. Prior knowledge of Microsoft System Center is required.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Index

Creating a baseline to monitor for unapproved software

This recipe provides the steps required to create a baseline that can be used to monitor for unapproved software.

Configuration Manager has the ability to inventory clients for a list of all installed software. The inventory includes the following details.

Configuration item

Description

Software category

Software categories allow you to define and group software at a high level. There are almost 100 prepopulated categories to help you get started; you can also create a category of your own. Some examples of existing categories are Line of Business and Purchasing.

Software family

Software families allow you to define and group software more specifically; for example, if the category is Line of Business, then the family could be Payroll or CRM.

Software label

Software labels allow you to define specific attributes that can be used to group software for reporting purposes. You can assign up to three labels for software; for example...