This document outlines the role of a freelance consultant specializing in configuration management and compliance. It details processes for planning, configuring, deploying, and monitoring configuration items, including various log files that record compliance and remediation information. Additionally, it provides links to Microsoft resources for further information.

2. Freelance Consultant
Tim.De.Keukelaere@IT-Essence.be
@Tim_DK
http://scug.be/tim/
http://be.linkedin.com/in/timdekeukelaere/

10. Plan & Configure
• Standards
Definition
• Create CI’s
and define
baselines
Assessment
• Deploy
baselines to
collections
Report /
Remediate
• Monitor
configuration
drift
• Remediate
non-
compliance
issues

11. Baseline
Group of CIs with presence
rules.
Configuration Item
Configuration model defined for OS ,
Application (settings, rules,
applicability )
WMI
XML
Registry
IIS
MSI
Script
SQL
Software
Updates
File
Active
Directory
Agent discovers CIs,
validates data against
rules, remediates and
reports compliance
ConfigMgr
Agent
Deployment
Monitor/remediate
Collection

25. Log Description
CIAgent.log Records details about the process of remediation and compliance for
compliance settings, software updates, and
CITaskManager.log Records information about configuration item task scheduling.
DCMAgent.log Records high-level information about the evaluation, conflict reporting,
and remediation of configuration items and applications.
DCMReporting.log Records information about reporting policy platform results into state
messages for configuration items
DcmWmiProvider.log Records information about reading configuration item synclets from
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

27. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30710
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40913