Manage compliance and endpoint protection settings - Managing Enterprise Devices and Apps - page 187

Thought experiment
Configuration Items at Contoso
You are testing the compliance functionality of Configuration Manager. Specifically,
you are interested in monitoring the configuration of mobile devices and deter-
mining whether a prohibited file-sharing application is installed on Configuration
Manager clients running the Windows 8.1 operating system. With this information
in mind, answer the following questions:
1. What must you configure in addition to Configuration Manager to manage
mobile device configuration item settings?
2. Which configuration item type could you use to determine whether a prohibited
application is installed on Configuration Manager clients running the
Windows 8.1 operating system?
Objective summary
■ The Compliance Settings feature enables you to assess and manage configuration set-
tings for Configuration Manager clients.
■ Configuration items contain one or more unique settings and values that you want to
compare for compliance evaluation.
■ Use the create a child configuration item method to create a configuration item that
inherits the properties of an existing configuration item.
■ Use the copy existing configuration items method to create a configuration item with
the properties of an existing configuration item but for which you want to modify
some settings.
■ Configuration Manager maintains a revision history of each configuration item. When
you modify a configuration item, you do not lose the previous settings, and you can
still use the previous settings in a configuration baseline.
■ Configuration Manager supports the following noncompliant severity levels: None,
Information, Warning, Critical, and Critical With Event.
■ Configuration Manager supports remediation only for the following configuration
items: registry values, scripts, WQL query configuration items, all mobile phone set-
tings, and Mac OS X Preferences (where the value type operator is set to Equals).
Objective review
Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of the information in this objective.
You can find the answers to these questions and explanations of why each answer choice is
correct or incorrect in the “Answers” section at the end of the chapter.