Planning for User-Centric Management

Like most systems management products, ConfigMgr 2007 emphasized management of devices. System Center 2012 Configuration Manager retains and expands device management capabilities, and introduces a new paradigm of user-centric management. User-centric features enable administrators to deliver content to users, regardless of the device they log on to, and gives users more control over ConfigMgr features.

Administrators now have the option to specify collections of users or AD user groups as deployment targets. Users receive such deployments on any client system onto which they log on. The new user affinity feature associates users with their primary systems. Each user may have more than one primary device, ...

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