Compliance Settings Changes

System Center 2012 Configuration Manager has improved on what was formerly known as DCM and labeled it compliance settings. Compliance settings receive new benefits available in the ConfigMgr 2012 framework such as reporting, monitoring, and enhanced security.

Overall, the ease of creating and managing baselines has improved with additions such as creating configuration items while browsing a “gold” device. Enhanced versioning is included, which allows version-specific configuration items to be included in baselines. After baselines are deployed, dashboards and reporting help easily determine the level of compliance for the collection.

The 2012 product adds a missing feature of managing configuration drift. Automatic ...

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