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You have a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager environment. You use Active Directory System Discovery to discover computers that are located in the Sales organizational unit (OU) and in all child
The correct answer is A. Clear the Recursive check box for the Sales OU discovery.. The Recursive option in AD System Discovery controls whether SCCM traverses child OUs beneath a specified container; clearing it limits discovery to only the directly specified OU.
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You have a System Center 2012 Configuration Manager environment. You use Active Directory System Discovery to discover computers that are located in the Sales organizational unit (OU) and in all child OUs under the Sales OU. Discovering computers in all the child OUs is requiring a significant amount of time to complete. You need to configure discovery for only computers in the Sales OU. What should you do?
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- AClear the Recursive check box for the Sales OU discovery.
- BClear the Include Groups check box for the Sales OU discovery.
- CCreate a custom LDAP query to LDAP://OU=Sales,DC=SCCMDEMO,DC=COM.
- DSelect the option to browse to the Sales OU, and then select the Sales OU.
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The Recursive option in AD System Discovery controls whether SCCM traverses child OUs beneath a specified container; clearing it limits discovery to only the directly specified OU.
When a container is added to AD System Discovery, the Recursive checkbox causes SCCM to search all nested child OUs, which is why discovery is slow. Clearing the Recursive checkbox restricts the search scope to only the directly specified Sales OU, eliminating the time spent traversing all child containers.
The Include Groups checkbox controls whether AD security group objects are included in discovery results - it has no effect on OU traversal depth or child OU scanning.
A custom LDAP query is unnecessary complexity because the built-in Recursive checkbox directly governs child OU traversal and is the intended mechanism for controlling this scope.
Browsing to and selecting the Sales OU sets the starting point for discovery but does not disable recursive child OU traversal; the Recursive option remains the controlling setting.
Concept tested: AD System Discovery recursive OU scope configuration
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/configmgr/core/servers/deploy/configure/configure-discovery-methods#configure-active-directory-system-discovery
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