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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

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Real-world use of asset intelligence


Asset intelligence is another feature in the stack of inventory and software data that is largely unused. The feature comes from a vast online catalog of software identifiers, which synchronizes with your site via the asset intelligence sync point.

Not only does this functionality provide you with a huge list of software families and categories, which categorizes software titles in the asset intelligence reports, but also gives you a list of hardware requirements for over 100 applications. You can run reports of your hierarchy against these software titles to see which clients cannot run a certain application.

This information then becomes very useful when we are deploying a new operating system or a new application into our environment. It is a good validation step that can be used before deploying the software to give you a better idea of what will work and what will not work.

Licensing with asset intelligence

Another great feature of asset intelligence...