Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "You can use the prerequisites checker tool that is provided with the System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 installation media, which is located in \SMSSETUP\BIN\x64\prereqchk.exe."

A block of code is set as follows:

mpcmdrun.exe –removedefinitions [All]

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

SMSEP Setup Started....
Installing the SMSEP
Unable to query registry key
(SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Microsoft Security Client),
return (0x00000002) means EP client is NOT installed
Installation was successful.

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "To view or edit the configuration items on a particular site, click on the Assets and Compliance section of the Configuration Manager console and select Compliance Settings."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.