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Deploying software to AD usergroups - 9/24/2008 7:53:39 AM

amartensson

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I'm deploying a shortcut to some of our users desktop, and 48 hours later only about half of them have received it, a mandatory assignment. How does the advertisement work when targeted at a usergroup? Is there any way to update SCCM to speed up the process of finding which computers it should send the shortcut to?

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RE: Deploying software to AD usergroups - 9/24/2008 8:32:56 AM

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The end users have to logoff/logon in order for the ConfigMgr client to 'see' that the logged in user is a member of that new usergroup. That's one of the main reasons where, if I can, I try to convince anyone and everyone that "computers get software, users and usergroups do not". However, if you're stuck there, you could try this. It requires some back-end work on your part, and some interesting collection queries, but it works mostly. At least a little better than waiting for users to logoff/on.

You could also put computer's AD accounts in a usergroup (instead of the users), and target a collection query of 'computers that are a member of group whatever'. I know a lot of people use that approach to easily allow non-ConfigMgr administrators to use AD to target objects with an advertisement.

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RE: Deploying software to AD usergroups - 9/24/2008 10:38:57 AM

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I concur that generally speaking targeting adverts to machines versus users tends to make life much more enjoyable. ;)

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RE: Deploying software to AD usergroups - 9/25/2008 7:04:32 AM

amartensson

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Thanks, guess I'll have to create the groups then, was hoping I could take the easy road and target our applicationgroups;)

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