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Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Administration Cookbook

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Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Administration Cookbook

Overview of this book

Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (CM12) is a systems management application for managing large groups of Windows-based computer systems. System Center 2012 Configuration Manager provides remote control, patch management, software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection, and hardware and software inventory. This practical cookbook shows you how to administer System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and understand how to solve particular problems/scenarios Packed with over 50 task-based and immediately reusable recipes, this book starts by showing you how to design a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Infrastructure. The book then dives into topics such as recommended SQL configuration for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, deploying Windows 7 with Operating System Deployment (OSD), deploying Applications and Software Updates, managing Compliance Settings, managing Sites and managing Inventory amongst others.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Leveraging Security Compliance Manager


Microsoft released pre-built configuration packs for Desired Configuration Management (DCM) for CM07. Many of those packs are quite old and not easily found, so we recommend the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager (SCM) . With SCM, you can download pre-built baselines, clone and edit for your own use, compare to Microsoft defaults, and most importantly, export a cab file to be imported into CM12 to make new baselines.

CM12 gives you the ability to do revisions of baselines so that as you change them over time, you can phase out old ones and enforce or report on new ones. But we advise you to maintain the same revisions in SCM so that you can fully leverage its full capabilities.

Getting ready

Download and install SCM. Get well acquainted with SCM before proceeding. What we are going to do is clone the enterprise class Windows 7 security baseline in SCM and export a cab file for use in CM12 as a new baseline.

How to do it...

  1. From the SCM console, clone...