How to Add or Remove Computers from a Computer Group

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Adding and removing computers is a simple process in System Center Essentials 2007. However, the default computer groups (All Computers, All Clients, and All Servers) cannot be changed or removed.

You can change a nondefault computer group by adding or removing computers, using the following Essentials 2007 console panes:

  • Computers pane. This location provides a quick and easy way to add computers to or remove them from a computer group that you have created. However, you cannot change computer groups based on an existing Management Pack group.

  • Authoring pane. This location provides a robust means to add many more types of available objects to more types of groups, including computer groups. This is the only location from which you can change the members of the default computer groups (All Computers, All Clients, and All Servers) or computer groups based on an existing Management Pack group.

How to add or remove computers from a computer group in the Computers pane

  1. In the System Center Essentials console, click Computers.

  2. Expand Computer Groups.

  3. Right-click a computer group that you created, and click Properties.

  4. Clear the Show only computers in this group check box.

  5. Do either of the following:

    • Select the check box beside any computer you want to add to the group.

    • Clear the check box beside any computer you want to remove from the group.

  6. Click OK.

How to add or remove computers from a computer group in the Authoring pane

  1. In the System Center Essentials console, click the Authoring button.

  2. In the Authoring pane, expand Authoring and select Groups.

  3. In the Groups pane, right click a group and click Properties.

  4. Click the Explicit Members tab, and click Add/Remove Objects. This opens the Create Group wizard Object Selection page.

  5. On the Object Selection page, under Search for, select Computer.

  6. Click Search. You can enter any portion of a computer name in Filter by part of name. Wildcards are not supported.

  7. Do either of the following:

    • In Available items, select any computer you want to add and click Add.

    • In Selected objects, select any computer you want to remove and click Remove.

  8. Click OK.

See Also

Tasks

How to Create a Computer Group
How to Delete a Computer Group
How to Run a Task for a Computer
How to Stop Managing a Computer

Other Resources

Computers, Computer Groups, and Discovery in System Center Essentials