Associating Collections with Distribution Point Groups

Another new feature in ConfigMgr 2012 is the ability to associate a collection with a DPG. When distributing content, you can target a collection associated with a DPG. This in turn targets all DPs in the DPG with the content.

For example, you have a collection named All Devices in Europe (which obviously contains all devices in Europe). You also have a DPG, All Europe DPs, that is associated with the All Devices in Europe collection. Next, you have an application that needs to be deployed to All Devices in Europe. When you create the deployment, you can choose to deploy content automatically to the associated DPG for the target collection. You can use this process to ensure that content ...

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