System Centre Configuration Manager - Discovery

Now that SCCM 2012 is installed, need to configure it to work with the network to discover the clients and networks so that it can start to be useful. So first port of call is the new Discovery Methods section.

First one that I notice is Active Directory Forest Discovery.

This was run and after checking the status messages

It then apeared in the Active Directory Forest section of the Hierarchy.

The older AD Security Group, System, System Group, & User Discovery methods were configured for the Proof of Concept domain, and within  a couple of minutes there was plenty of information in the Asset lists.


Finally a Boundary Group was created from the IP and Site Boundarys discovered from the AD Forest discovery to scope the SCCM server

As this is a test lab, initaly only client push for new agents will be used.
So first was to install the agent on the site server.