SCCM 2012 CEP Theme 7: Compliance and Settings Management Notes
The following notes are what I gathered from the Theme 7 webcast today...
- Speaker: Onur Koc, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
- Attendee number is lower for this meeting. Only have 29 total today.
- December contest winner: Me :)
- Vision
- "Provide a unified platform for customers and partners to define, monitor, enforce and report configuration compliance in the enterprise for user across all supported ConfigMgr devices."
- Pillars
- Simplify admin experience
- Embrace "user centric" mgmt
- Integrate architecture, infrastructure, admin experience for all user-centric mgmt
- Key Concepts
- Baseline
- Group of CI's with presence rules.
- Configuration Item
- Config model defined for OS, app (settings, rules, applicability
- Deploy to collection
- Investments
- Eek! This slide is ridiculous to try and take notes from (slide below)
- RBAC
- Gold system browsing for creating CI's
- Some scenarios and demonstrations were covered here for creating CI's by browsing gold system
- As he is going through the demo, I'm not getting a sense of too many differences from current DCM
- User of Device Targeting
- New verb is "Deployment", no longer use Assignment term (Personal Note: remember for beta exam)
- Deploy baselines to user or device collections
- If deployed to users, you have several evaluation options
- Eval baseline on all devices user logs on
- eval baseline on only user's primary machines
- In-Console Monitoring
- Most common Noncompliant/Errors sorted based on number of devices/users impacted
- Deployed to Users vs. Device
- Really like the dashboard for (non)compliance status
- Reporting
- admins can see compliance at a glance
- drill-down to see details
- view troubleshooting and remediation info
- Monitor vs. Remediate
- support for CM 2007 monitoring providers is still available
- Remediation is only supported for registry, wmi and script-based settings
- Support for mobile phones
- fully integrated authoring, targeting and reporting experience
- easily build a CI from built-in common settings or create your own settings
- compliance eval off-loaded to server to limit battery and cpu impact on mobile
- support for WM 6.1 and WP 6.5.x
- CI revisioning and audit tracking
- ability to see revisions of ci's, view who changed what and chose to use specific items
- CM 2007 Migration of config packs
- ability to import '07 CI and baselines to 2012
- migration from 2007 hierarchy to 2012 using migration tool
- migration or import will automatically convert v4 schema to v5 schema
- Q&A Time
- When will Win Phone 7 CI's support be available for CM 2012?
- Next meeting: January 26, 2011 - Theme 8: Software Update Management
- Number of attendees maxed out at around 46.