Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Administration Cookbook

Managing client settings

CM07's Client Agent Settings becomes just Client Settings in CM12. One important distinction is that CM12 offers Default Client Settings that are applied to all machines in a site, and Custom Client Device Settings and Custom Client User Settings that can be targeted to specific collections.

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 Administration ...