Best Practices for Working with Configuration Manager

The following approach is recommended as a best practice for adopting the authorized state for applications that require high quality configuration data:

• Begin by determining the data you need to consume. Define views accordingly and add these views to be managed in Configuration Manager.

• Set automatic state transition conditions for those views to authorize all changes in the view. This essentially copies the configuration of the actual state to the authorized state.

• Configure your applications to consume data from the authorized state of the views, rather than the actual state.

• Gradually begin controlling the data in these views by applying policies, changing the automatic state transition rules, and manually authorizing changes. In this way, you can adopt the configuration authorization process while maintaining the ability to consume your data.