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Mastering System Center Configuration Manager

By : Krstevski
Book Image

Mastering System Center Configuration Manager

By: Krstevski

Overview of this book

This book is perfect for IT administrators who are looking to enhance their skills on system and asset management. A fair understanding of the core elements and applications related to SCCM would be helpful.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Index

The Configuration Manager's discovery methods


Making an inventory of all the available resources in your infrastructure is of great benefit. System Center Configuration Manager can use different discovery methods to find these resources. There are seven types of discovery methods in the Configuration Manager, as follows:

  • Active Directory Forest: This method is used to discover entire Active Directory forests.

  • Active Directory Security Group: This method is used to discover the Active Directory security groups in an Active Directory domain.

  • Active Directory System: This method is used to discover the computer accounts in an Active Directory domain.

  • Active Directory System Group: This method is used to discover a group of computer or user accounts in an Active Directory domain.

  • Active Directory User: This method is used to discover the user accounts in an Active Directory domain.

  • Heartbeat: This method is used by active Configuration Manager clients to update their discovery records in the...