Managing client settings

Client Settings in CM is a very flexible way to manage CM client settings. Indeed, CM offers Default Client Settings that are applied to all machines in a site but also provides Custom Client Devices Settings and Custom Client User Settings that can be targeted to specific collections for more granularity.

Deploying custom client settings to just one collection keeps network traffic down and the database size smaller. For example, if the sales department needs software inventory data on their C:\Sales folder, only their machines will look for it and send that data back, instead of the entire company.

We're going to show a couple examples of how custom settings can be used.

Getting ready

In the CM admin console, navigate to ...

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