Previous chapters led you through the server installation and configuration process, as well as client installation and deploying of applications and updates.
All the operations that have been described in previous chapters are performed by the clients, and this happens because a computer where the ConfigMgr client resides has been assigned to a collection. All server deployments available on ConfigMgr are assigned to a collection, and the collection might contain computers, mobile devices, or user objects.
Collections are created based on data available in the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) database, and this is the topic that is going to be covered in this chapter. The chapter will explain how to gather data from the client computers and how to use this data for creating queries, collections, and reports. Not only WMI-related...