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How do I set compliance in SCCM 2012?

What is this? Right click the configuration item Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Management Point, select Properties, choose the Compliance Rules, select BGB firewall port and click Edit.

How does SCCM determine compliance?

View compliance results in the Configuration Manager console

  1. In the Configuration Manager console, click Monitoring > Deployments.
  2. In the Deployments list, select the configuration baseline deployment for which you want to review compliance information.

What is configuration item and configuration baseline?

Configuration baselines in Configuration Manager contain predefined configuration items and optionally, other configuration baselines. After a configuration baseline is created, you can deploy it to a collection so that devices in that collection download the configuration baseline and assess their compliance with it.

How do you deploy a configuration baseline in SCCM?

Deploy a configuration baseline

  1. In the Configuration Manager console, click Assets and Compliance > Compliance Settings > Configuration Baselines.
  2. In the Configuration Baselines list, select the configuration baseline that you want to deploy, and then in the Home tab, in the Deployment group, click Deploy.

What is baseline compliance?

A baseline configuration compliance profile contains a set of commands to be run on the device upon analysis and the desired output for the commands, allowing you to determine the device’s compliance with a certain basic configuration.

What is remediation in SCCM?

A Remediation operation uses information gathered from a vulnerability management system to create an operation that corrects those vulnerabilities on servers managed with SCCM. You launch a Remediation operation from the Operator Dashboard.

How do I check SCCM installation status?

To monitor deployment status

  1. In the Configuration Manager console, navigate to Monitoring > Overview > Deployments.
  2. Click the software update group or software update for which you want to monitor the deployment status.
  3. On the Home tab, in the Deployment group, click View Status.

How do I run a SCCM script?

Run a script

  1. In the Configuration Manager console, click Assets and Compliance.
  2. In the Assets and Compliance workspace, click Device Collections.
  3. In the Device Collections list, click the collection of devices on which you want to run the script.
  4. Select a collection of your choice, click Run Script.

What is difference between configuration management and change management?

The major change between configuration and change management is that configuration management focuses on managing the configurable items and the state of the system while change management focuses on managing the changes that affect the configurable items and the system.

What is a configuration baseline in SCCM?

A Configuration Baseline in ConfigMgr is a collection of one or more conditional checks called Configuration Items. Each of these configuration items are evaluated upon a defined schedule for the purpose of reporting on compliance and for auditing purposes.

What is minimum security baseline?

Minimum Baseline Standards also referred to as Minimum Security Baseline (MSB) is a minimum information security configuration standard, which can be applied to several layers of an organizations Information Technology Infrastructure. As a best practice, servers, workstations, routers, switches, firewalls, etc.

What does security baseline mean?

According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a “security control baseline” refers to “the set of minimum security controls defined for a low-impact, moderate-impact, or high-impact information system.

How are compliance settings evaluated in SCCM 2012?

SCCM 2012 Compliance Settings Compliance is evaluated by defining a configuration baseline that contains the configuration items that you want to evaluate and settings and rules that describe the level of compliance you must have.

How to check if your SCCM server is non compliant?

On the SCCM machine, click Control panel, Configuration manager, Configurations – we see there a baseline existing. This is the same configuration baseline that we had applied in the above steps. Click on Evaluate and then View Report. Out of the 4 configuration items, one item has reported that our SCCM server is non compliant.

What is the configuration pack for Configuration Manager 2012?

This Configuration Pack contains Configuration Items intended to manage your Configuration Manager 2012 site system roles using the desired configuration management component in Configuration Manager 2012. This configuration pack monitors the following site system roles: management points, site server, and software update points.

How to define compliance in a configuration setting?

Compliance rules specify the conditions that define the compliance of a configuration item setting. Before the client evaluates a setting for compliance, it must have at least one compliance rule. Some settings remediate noncompliant values. Create new rules, or browse to an existing setting in any configuration item and select rules in it.