From the course: Configuration Manager: Configure and Maintain a Management Infrastructure

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Create a device collection

Create a device collection

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Create a device collection

- [Instructor] We are in System Center Configuration Manager in our Assets and Compliance section and if we take a look at the navigation index, you can see this is split into two sections. On the left hand side, you see everything that has to do with users and on the right hand side, everything that has to do with devices. This is very similar in the way it works with group policy. Group policy is an active directory also work the same way. They're split into users and devices. So we're going to create a device collection in this video. And device collections in System Center Configuration Manager represent a logical container for a grouping of devices. These collections can then be used to perform a number of tasks such as deploying software or updates. Let's go ahead and click on the device collection link. And we see that there's already four different device collections that were created automatically when we installed the System Center Configuration Manager. If we take a look…

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