Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2

Chapter 12. Desired Configuration Management

Using Desired Configuration Management, or DCM, you can easily configure a setting for clients and then check to ensure that each client has been configured as such. You'll do this in the Configuration Manager console by first creating configuration items, or CIs, that will specify a given setting as it should be configured. You'll then compile sets of CIs into configuration baselines, which define a complete baseline configuration that all clients in the group should conform to. Finally, you'll apply the baselines to a collection of Configuration Manager clients. Each client will then evaluate the baseline and, if it meets the baseline criteria, report back on its compliance with CIs in the baseline. ...