Collections Overview and the Direct Rule

Welcome to System Center Configuration Manager Collections

In these next series of lecture’s, we will be exploring collections.

In this lecture, we will do an overview of the collection process, then I will show you how to create several different types of collections.

So What is a Collection – A collection is a grouping of users or devices.

A collection can be used as a target for pushing out applications, Assigning Administrative Roles, Turning on Remote Desktop, Configuring Power Management and Maintenance Windows.

Here are the Types of Collections – You have User, Device, Default, and Custom Collections. We will go over each type one at a time.

• User Collections – Which are for Managing Users
• Device Collections – For managing Devices or Computers

Then we have** ** Default Collections – Which are made up of User and Device collections – These collections are created during the SCCM installation. SCCM can pull users, devices, and groups from Active Directory.

**These **collections cannot be changed.

• **Here’s our Default User Collections **

Consists of All User Groups, All Users, All Users, and User Groups

You can identify a Default Collection by the ID, which always begins with a SMS.

** Default Device Collections **– Consists of All Desktop and Server Clients, All Mobile Devices, All Systems, and All Unknown Computers (which are computers that are not known to the CM database.

• SCCM uses Active Directory Discovery Methods to Discover and populate these default User and device collections.

• Custom Collections – Two types of custom collections - Static and dynamic .

**Static Collections **– Members are added and removed manually

Dynamic Collections – Members are added dynamically

• You can identify a Dynamic Collection by the Site Code – In this case the site code is **SA, for ServerAcademy **** **

Collection Membership Rules

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