Collections-SCCM

Collections are nothing but the logical grouping of resources like computers or users. For example, if we need to target only Windows 7 machines for software distribution; we can create a group of Windows 7 machines with some logic or query and use this group( called collection) to be targeted for software distribution.

We can create collections in two ways:

A]       Query based collection-

B]       Direct rule membership-

Creating Query Based Collection in SCCM 2007

Creating Direct rule membership Collection in SCCM 2007 

Creating Device Collection based on OU in SCCM 2012

Creating Device Collection based on an Active Directory Security Group in SCCM 2012

Creating Device Collection with Manual Direct Rules in SCCM 2012