Summary

The landscape of configuration management continually evolves. To stay current with these changes, System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has evolved as well into a user-centric configuration management platform. While increasing capability and performance, the ConfigMgr infrastructure has simplified to reduce the administrative burden. ConfigMgr is a completely scalable architecture, which can run in complex scenarios as a widely distributed system or as a simple, stand-alone server.

The shift of ConfigMgr to a state-based system introduces a new paradigm of configuration management. Instead of managing software, administrators manage applications with enough intelligence built in to handle most deployment scenarios. When the intent ...

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