Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Advanced Deployment

Managing Internet-based devices

We have already looked at deploying certain company resources to those clients to whom we have very little connectivity on a regular basis. We can use Configuration Manager to manage these devices just like those domain-based clients over the Internet.

This scenario works really well when the clients do not use VPN or DirectAccess, or maybe when we do not deploy a remote access solution for our remote users. This is where we can use Configuration Manager to manage clients using Internet-based client management (IBCM).

How Internet-based client management works

We have the ability to manage Internet-based clients in Configuration Manager by deploying certain site system roles in DMZ. By doing this, we make the management ...