Creating Direct rule membership Collection in SCCM 2007

Direct rule membership Collection : 

1. In the Configuration Manager console, navigate to System CenterConfiguration Manager / Site Database / Computer Management

From Collections Actions menu click NewCollection. A new collection wizard will open up, enter the collection name and description.

2. Click on ‘blue computer icon’ to open the “create direct membership rule wizard”. Optionally, you can check the ‘update this collection on a schedule’ to update the collection created on a scheduled time. 

Click next on the “Create Direct Membership Rule Wizard”.

3. Search for resources:
Depending on the requirement, we can select the “Resource Class”. Here, I am trying to create a collection that has all Windows XP machines. The resource class selected is “System Resource”

Attributes: There are lots of attributes that can be used to search for the resources like AD Site, status of the resource, IP address. Here, I have selected “NetBIOS Name”

Value: enter the appropriate value for the attribute selected. Click next.

4. Collection Limiting: If you do not have sufficient permissions on the entire database, limiting to a collection on which we have permission helps find the resources.

This helps us to limit the collection to target only the specified collection mentioned.

Here, I am limiting it o “All Windows XP Systems” collection.

5. Select Resources: Based on the criteria selected in the “Search for Resources” window, the resources will appear here.

Since, I have criteria to get Windows XP machines, “WINXP” machine is populated as shown. Select all, click next and Click Finish to close the wizard.

Then it is just next, next, next and close. If required, the security settings can be reviewed.

Dont forget to update the collection membership after the creation of the collection. The collection will not populate with resources unless it is updated.