Major Features of System Center Configuration Manager

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has hundreds of features and functions that IT administrators can leverage as part of their system configuration and management practices; some of the major features in the product are as follows:

Operating system deployment—At the start of the system’s life cycle is the installation of the core operating system. SCCM provides all the tools an organization needs to deploy an operating system, either as an imaged installation (formerly, organizations used Norton Ghost, but no longer need to because SCCM includes image creation and deployment tools) or as a scripted method of installation.

Patching and updating—Once the operating system has been deployed, ...

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