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Learn System Center Configuration Manager in a Month of Lunches
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Learn System Center Configuration Manager in a Month of Lunches

by James Bannan
June 2016
Beginner
320 pages
11h 7m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 5. Organizing devices and users

Now that your ConfigMgr environment has been populated with users and devices, it’s time to start organizing them so that you can start making them work for you.

In a ConfigMgr environment, you don’t directly target users and machines on an individual basis mainly because this method of administration becomes difficult to maintain in production when you’re dealing with more than a few hundred objects. Therefore, in ConfigMgr you use collections to group users and devices into logical, business-relevant groups, and you target all your administrative actions on those same collections. If devices and users are the bricks of the ConfigMgr environment, collections are the mortar that binds everything together ...

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