Defining Configuration Items to Monitor

The configuration settings that will eventually constitute a baseline need to be defined. Compliance Settings provides many options for monitoring the state of both objects and settings on the managed system. Compliance Settings can monitor a variety of objects, including Registry keys, files, and managed code assemblies. Compliance Settings can also be configured to validate settings. Setting data can be obtained through AD-, IIS-, Registry-, Script-, SQL-, WQL-, and XML-based queries.

New to Configuration Manager 2012 is the ability to remediate settings if they are out of compliance. For example, if Compliance Settings is monitoring a Registry value and the value is changed or deleted, Compliance Settings ...

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