In This Chapter

New and Improved in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

Configuring Compliance Settings

Configuration Items and Baselines

Compliance Strategy

Troubleshooting

Perhaps the most under-used Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007 feature was desired configuration management (DCM). DCM was a newly introduced feature enabling you to monitor, report, and take action on systems that do not meet specific, predefined settings.

Compliance settings is the evolution of DCM, although it is similar to what it was in ConfigMgr 2007. Compliance settings provide the ability to define, monitor, enforce, and report configuration compliance. Compliance settings handle the following four general scenarios that all IT organizations deal ...

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