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System Center Configuration Manager

System Center Configuration Manager
System Center Configuration Manager

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, is a software product for managing groups of Windows-based servers and workstations. The Configuration Manager provides remote control, software patch management, software distribution, OS deployment, hardware/software inventory and more.

Sites can be defined as one or more Active Directory sites.The Advanced Client communicates with a scalable management infrastructure, the so called Management Point. This Management Point can manage up to 25,000 Advanced Clients.

The Advanced Client provides a solution to the problem that a managed laptop might connect to a corporate network from multiple different locations. When an Advanced Client is used on another location (so called 'SMS Site'), it uses a local distribution point to download or run a program which can conserve bandwidth across a WAN.