New-CMBaseline

Creates a Configuration Manager baseline.

Parameter Set: New
New-CMBaseline -Name <String> [-Category <String[]> ] [-Description <String> ] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [ <CommonParameters>]

The New-CMBaseline cmdlet creates a Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 Configuration Manager baseline. A baseline is a collection of configuration items that System Center 2012 Configuration Manager uses to evaluate whether a computer complies with software requirements. After you create a baseline, you can deploy it to a collection so that devices in that collection download the configuration baseline and assess compliance with it.

Specifies an array of categories to which the baseline configuration belongs. Valid values are:

-- Client
-- IT Infrastructure
-- Line of Business
-- Server

Specifies a description for the baseline.

Specifies a name for the configuration baseline.

Prompts you for confirmation before running the cmdlet.

Shows what would happen if the cmdlet runs. The cmdlet is not run.

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -OutBuffer, and -OutVariable. For more information, see    about_CommonParameters (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=113216).

The input type is the type of the objects that you can pipe to the cmdlet.

The output type is the type of the objects that the cmdlet emits.

This command creates a baseline for compliance named Accounting Department baseline. The command specifies a description for the baseline.

PS C:\> New-CMBaseline -Name "Accounting Department baseline" -Description "Compliance standards for Accounting computers."

Disable-CMBaseline

Enable-CMBaseline

Export-CMBaseline

Get-CMBaseline

Import-CMBaseline

Remove-CMBaseline

Set-CMBaseline