System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Unleashed

Managing and Creating Global Conditions

Global conditions are used to build requirements for DT installation. You may hear the terms global conditions, requirements, and requirement rules used interchangeably. Requirements determine which DT will be deployed to a system. The more you use requirements, the more you will see how they may greatly reduce the number of collections needed for software deployment. You may have used the Supported Platforms dialog of Program properties to ensure software installs only on a specific operating system and service pack. If you did, you recall that after you had those platforms configured, you could deploy software to a collection of all systems, and only the systems that met the platform requirements actually ...