System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Unleashed

Collection Changes

Configuration Manager takes advantage of a feature from previous versions known as collection limiting and enforces its use. Any new collection must be limited to some other collection. Collections can no longer contain a mixture of users and devices. Collections update faster because they execute collection member evaluations through an incremental process (by default, every 10 minutes). Because objects are globally available, a collection at any site can contain the objects from the entire hierarchy. System Center 2012 Configuration Manager also adds two new collection rules, Include Collections and Exclude Collections, making it much easier to include or exclude objects from another collection, as shown in Figure 2.15.