Foreword

Some people think that Configuration Manager is scary and complex—and it can be if you don’t have a good, solid background in it before you attempt to tackle it for your enterprise. I think that training is essential to having a great background in Configuration Manager before you take on its challenges in a production environment. When you throw reporting into the picture, it is even scarier.

Reporting is a bit of a black box for most Configuration Manager admins: They don’t deal with it much, other than running the default reports, and they certainly don’t know how to create custom reports. Each of the various releases of Configuration Manager has had a great set of default reports (and that count is nearing 500 now) that cover all ...

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