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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment

By : Martyn Coupland
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment

By: Martyn Coupland

Overview of this book

If you are an experienced Configuration Manager administrator looking to advance your career or get more from your current environment, then this book is ideal for you. Prior experience of deploying and managing a Configuration Manager site would be helpful in following the examples throughout this book.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
13
Index

Configuring the software and hardware inventory


Once you have installed your site, it is true that you are not required to complete any configuration to start collecting inventory. For software inventory, though, you will need to define some rules to start collecting data. Without any configuration, inventory will work and collect the default set of inventory from your clients.

The implementation of any feature is as important to the success of the deployment as the design of the hierarchy. For this reason, you should always plan and design each aspect of your configuration; inventory is no exception to this.

Tip

To really take advantage of the power of inventory, look at what extra inventory you might want to collect, and how often you want to collect it. Configuration is as important as design.

Planning the configuration of inventory

The first step in this process is to look at the default policy. In Configuration Manager, policies are merged and in the event of conflicting settings, the priority...