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Set up discovery methods

Set up discovery methods

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Set up discovery methods

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- [Instructor] An important part to discovering all the different computers and other resources in your organization using Configuration Manager are the discovery methods. And you can see I got there by going to Administration in the lower left hand side and then going to Hierarchy Configuration. And I expanded that to get to Discovery Methods. And there's multiple different discovery methods that you see here. And by default, they're all going to be disabled. So you may find that none of your computers or mobile devices are being found because this isn't turned on. So I'm going to go through each one here, right click and choose Properties, and I'm going to choose to enable all the ones that I find useful. So starting out with the Forest Discovery, we want to enable that Active Directory Forest Discovery so it finds it properly. And then it will also add in the active directory site boundaries and range boundaries if you decide you want to have them automatically created. Now, I've…

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