Chapter 6. Configuring ConfigMgr clients

The Configuration Manager client—the software package you deployed in chapter 4—is a powerful piece of kit, ready to help you in your daily administrative efforts. Once installed, it will regularly talk back to its assigned ConfigMgr management point, which is a site server role that acts as the main communication point between the ConfigMgr client and the ConfigMgr site server, checking whether there’s anything new it needs to be aware of. Welcome to the world of client policy.

Imagine that you want to enable your first-level help-desk operatives to remotely connect to a user’s machine in order to assist them with a support call; that’s something that you would use a client policy for. Now let’s say ...

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