Microsoft® System Center 2012 Unleashed

Understanding Client Schedules

Several client actions, such as hardware and software inventory, provide the ability to define a simple schedule or a custom schedule. The simple schedule typically improves the overall scalability of the Configuration Manager infrastructure by distributing the load placed on the network, Management Points, and Site Servers.

Note

Use the simple schedule and a throttled agent deployment to distribute load and improve scalability of the infrastructure.

The simple schedule works by configuring the client to execute and schedule the inventory schedule dynamically. The first iteration of the schedule is set as the time of the client installation. Throttling the deployment of the Configuration Manager client keeps ...