Rickey Whitworth's Blog » Desired Configuration Monitoring http://www.whitworth.org insights from managing a microsoft enterprise infrastructure Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:02:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 System Center with Jason Lewis : Announcing two System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Packs http://www.whitworth.org/2008/07/16/system-center-with-jason-lewis-announcing-two-system-center-configuration-manager-2007-configuration-packs/ http://www.whitworth.org/2008/07/16/system-center-with-jason-lewis-announcing-two-system-center-configuration-manager-2007-configuration-packs/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:40:40 +0000 admin http://www.whitworth.org/Blog/PermaLink,guid,70a572e3-5b2f-4130-80f7-ec3070375161.aspx For the past several months I’ve been working on two System Center Configuration
Manager 2007 Configuration Packs.  Configuration Packs are definitions for the
new Desired Configuration Management (DCM) component in ConfigMgr 2007.  DCM
allows you to assess the compliance of computers against a defined configuration.ÂÂ
A configuration pack consists of one or many configuration items and zero or more
configuration baselines.  A configuration baseline is a group of configuration
items.  A configuration item defines a set of rules for which to check configuration
compliance of an entity.  That entity could be an application such as Internet
Explorer or SQL Server that you have a configuration baseline defined.  Or it
could be a business rule that needs to check user machines don’t have any non
NTFS partitions.   Anyways, hope that defines what Configuration Packs are.ÂÂ
The two that I worked on and released are (sorry for the long names)…

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Pack (download)

This Configuration Pack helps track configuration compliance for Configuration Manager
2007 site server roles, such as management points, distribution points, and software
update points.

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Vulnerability Assessment Configuration
Pack (download)

This Configuration Pack helps track common software misconfigurations which might
make client computers more vulnerable to attack.  This is a replacement for the
Scan Tool for Vulnerability Assessment in System Management Server 2003 R2.

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Center with Jason Lewis : Announcing two System Center Configuration Manager 2007
Configuration Packs

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