Announcing two System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Packs

Jason Lewis — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:10:00 GMT

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. 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. 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.

Configuration Manager with Jason Lewis : Config Packs

Announcing two System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Configuration Packs