Asset Management

• In these next series of lectures, we are going to be talking about asset management, administrative tasks, and client management.
  • Because Configuration Manager is such a complex topic, at first it may be difficult or overwhelming to understand.

To make SCCM easier to comprehend, we have broken down the features and capabilities into three task-oriented categories.

• The first is Asset Management – From an organizational standpoint, it is the assets that are purchased by your purchasing department, like printers, computers, servers, and software.
• The second category is Administrative Tasks – These are the everyday tasks that an SCCM admin would be expected to perform. Like updating SCCM, and assigning administrative roles.
• The third category is Client Management. These tasks are all oriented toward the user, for example, operating system deployment, software updates, and client health.
• ·Each of these categories has tools to help you extend the functionality of SCCM. In the next three lectures, we will touch on some of these tools. In later lectures, you will have the opportunity to get hands-on experience using each of the tools mentioned.

In this lecture, we will start with the first category, Asset Management.

With Asset Management – Your assets can be broken down into these three sub-categories.

• Hardware and software Inventory – Which consists of your Computers and software
• Asset Intelligence – Which consists of software licenses for software that you use daily.
• Software Metering – This is about how many times or how long specific software was used in your organization.
• In my organization, we had CAD software used to design and configure military vehicles that cost 10-20k per license. In this case, software metering could be used to identify those machines that were not utilizing this software. Which would save the company thousands of dollars.

**Hardware and…