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Configuration baselines enable you to collect configuration items, software updates, and even
other configuration baselines as a way of determining compliance. You can create your own
baselines or import preexisting baselines through configuration packs. You can use the results
of a compliance check to create a new collection.
This section covers the following topics:
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Coniguration baselines
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Creating configuration baselines
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Deploying configuration baselines
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Configuration packs
Viewing compliance information
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A configuration baseline is a group of configuration items, software updates, and other con-
figuration baselines. If a system is noncompliant with one item in a configuration baseline, it is
noncompliant with the configuration baseline.
If you include configuration items for multiple products and system settings in a single
baseline, you increase the baseline's complexity. This makes managing the baseline more
difficult. A simpler approach is to create several single product or system settings baselines
and then deploy the baselines to the Configuration Manager collections to which you want
to apply them. When you evaluate the baselines, the compliance results are easier for you to
analyze. You can use the same configuration item in multiple configuration baselines.
After you create a configuration baseline, you can deploy it to a collection. This enables
that collection's devices or primary devices of the collection's users to download the configu-
ration baseline and assess compliance with each of the baseline's configuration items.
