Collections

A collection is a logical grouping of either users or devices. A collection is used to target a group of objects for management such as security boundaries, client settings, or deployments. During a collection evaluation cycle, if a schedule is specified, the membership of the collection is updated with any new objects that match the criteria specified by a collection rule.

Note: Collections Now are Either User- or Device-Specific

In previous versions of ConfigMgr, a collection could store both users and devices in the same collection.

A collection rule defines the membership of a collection. Here are the different types of rules:

Direct rule: An object is added directly to the collection.

Query rule: An object is added to ...

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