Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Administration Cookbook

Building Configuration Items

Assume your company requires all machines to adhere to the following four conditions:

• Users are required to use Ctrl + Alt + Delete to log in
• The local guest account must be disabled
• The Internet Connection Sharing service must be disabled
• A recent antivirus definition file is required

Each of these settings can be verified with a single CI returning a single compliant or noncompliant state, or each setting can get its own CI and return a state. The latter generates more state messages, but it can provide more detail in reporting. In this scenario, we'll just put all these settings into a single CI.

Getting ready

Create a text file called virus.def in the Windows\Temp folder of the computer running the CM12 admin console. ...