Microsoft® System Center 2012 Unleashed

Securing the Management Console

Configuration Manager 2012 introduces true role-based administration, allowing users and groups to be assigned roles in SCCM.

Components of the role-based administration include the following:

• Security Roles—These are groups of security permissions that can be assigned to users to allow them to perform their administrative tasks. The security permissions define tasks that an administrator can perform and rights to particular object types.

• Collections—These specify the users and devices that an administrator can view or manage. These collections can be based on geographic parameters, organizational parameters, or functional parameters. This allows very flexible division and organization of the resources to which ...