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Deployments Targeting LDAP Groups/

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Last updated: Sep 16, 2022

What

The FileWave WebAdmin has the capability to directly target LDAP OUs when defining a deployment.  This is a significant improvement over previous FileWave versions which required special smart groups to be built for this purpose.

When/Why

We will likely want to use this feature whenever we have something to deploy to a particular group of devices, and those devices all exist in an OU we can reference.  Note: Using Directory structure to deploy content is perfectly viable, but ONLY if the data in the directory itself is reliable.

How

To target (or exclude) an LDAP OU in a deployment, target it in a very similar fashion to how we target a smart group.  Example shown below:


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