Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

Chapter 4. Managing Compliance Settings

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Building Configuration Items the old way
• Building Configuration Items for Windows 10
• Creating and deploying a baseline
• Leveraging Security Compliance Manager
• Monitoring compliance with SSRS

Introduction

Compliance settings in CM (also known as Desired Configuration Management (DCM) in the past- CM07) have improved greatly since CM12. While CM12 introduced the Remediation feature which could enforce a list of settings, CM Current Branch brings Compliance Settings to a whole new level by leveraging that existing feature to manage Mobile Devices without CM agent installed (enrolled via Microsoft Intune).

In CM Current Branch, Compliance Settings is used for two purposes: ...