About Incremental Updates

Incremental updates allow you to add systems to a collection quickly without need of a full collection membership update. You may have noticed in Figure 13.2 that the default collection interval update is every 7 days, compared to every 24 hours with ConfigMgr 2007. In addition, the Use Incremental updates for this collection property is disabled by default. The general idea is that as you move to ConfigMgr 2012, you will use fewer collections and rely more on requirement rules for applications so that the rules are evaluated at the client. Use incremental updates on collections that are targeted with deployments to quickly deliver (or make available) software to the user or device.

To perform a manual collection membership ...

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