How a management point works

As always, if we understand the workings of what we are troubleshooting, we will inevitably reach a solution sooner. Being such an important piece of the Configuration Manager architecture, many people may think that the management point is a large and complex piece of software. Large it is not, complex maybe, but I guess that is subjective. The management point is in simple terms a small web application that the clients will contact to receive service location information, policy information, and also send configuration data to. The management point can be configured in either HTTP or HTTPS mode depending on the implementation and management points can be mixed across an environment. It is important to remember that when troubleshooting any management points configured for HTTPS, the role functions in just the same way as an added layer of security. Often people can be overcome with the fact that there are certificates involved and miss the basic functions...