Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
You can use collections to manage and organize groups of computers, mobile devices, users,
and security groups throughout your Configuration Manager environment. You also can use
collections to help accomplish many Configuration Manager management tasks. In this sec-
tion, you learn about the various types of collections, the methods to create collections, and
the process of monitoring collections.
This section covers the following topics:
Collections
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Collection rules
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Maintenance windows
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Power management
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Monitoring collections
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Collections represent resource groups that consist of devices such as computers and mobile
devices or users and user groups from all of the hierarchy's sites. You can use collections to
accomplish several management and configuration tasks, including:
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Organizing resources into manageable units to create an organized and logical struc-
ture of resources.
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Organizing collections of target resources to perform Configuration Manager opera-
tions on multiple resources simultaneously. Configuration Manager operations can
include operations such as application deployments and installation of software
updates.
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Targeting groups of computers with specific configurations, such as:
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Client settings.
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Power-management settings.
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Maintenance-window settings.
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Organizing computers based on their compliance status, with a specific baseline.
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Integrating with role-based administration to specify collections that a specific admin-
istrative user can access.
You can view or modify collections by using the User Collections and Device Collections
nodes found in the Assets And Compliance workspace. User collections can contain Users and
User Groups. Device collections can contain devices managed by Configuration Manager.
