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Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook

By : Andreas Baumgarten (USD), Susan Roesner, Ronnie Isherwood
Book Image

Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook

By: Andreas Baumgarten (USD), Susan Roesner, Ronnie Isherwood

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Compliance Management Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a baseline to monitor for unapproved hardware and virtual systems


Configuration Manager can monitor for unapproved systems that have been deployed to a corporate network. It does this by running periodic discoveries from one or more of the available discovery methods. These methods are listed in the following table:

Discovery method

Description

Active Directory Forest Discovery

Allows Configuration Manager to discover Active Directory sites and subnets.

Active Directory Group Discovery

Allows Configuration Manager to discover the group membership of Active Directory users and computers.

Active Directory System Discovery

Allows Configuration Manager to discover computers in Active Directory Domain Services.

Active Directory User Discovery

Allows Configuration Manager to discover user accounts in Active Directory Domain Services.

Heartbeat Discovery

Allows you to specify the frequency with which Configuration Manager clients send a heartbeat discovery record to the site...