Part IV: Software and Configuration Management

Compliance settings, discussed in Chapter 10, “Managing Compliance,” provides a set of tools and resources to help assess, track, and remediate the configuration compliance of your client systems.

Configuration Manager’s core capabilities have historically focused around software distribution, and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager adds new capabilities in this area. Software distribution is discussed in Chapter 11, “Packages and Programs,” Chapter 12, “Creating and Managing Applications,” and Chapter 13, “Distributing and Deploying Applications.” Software and configuration management also includes activities such as patch management (Chapter 14, “Software Update Management”), managing mobile ...

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