(imported topic written by rkc91)
Folks
Just wanted to know what is best approach to deploy an application to specific list of users
(imported comment written by Bjowah91)
You should write the deployment package to be relevant on a set of computers. Then you target the action based on a list of users.
The relevance for the computers could be only the OS forinstance. If you then target the action action as a policy the user will get the package where ever he/she logins. Pretty cool but perhaps not smart.
(imported comment written by brolly3391)
Hello rkc,
That is a really broad question with a few different approaches depending on what your goal is.
For targeting a list of usernames you might consider
q: (it=“brolly” or it=“rkc” or it =“username3”) of (name of current user as lowercase)
A: True
T: 3.743 ms
I: singular boolean
as your relevance. You can then add in all the usernames that you want with more
or it = “username”
as needed. I don’t think this would be a good idea though. Do you really want to target by who is logged onto the machine? I usually try to target by machine name so I can be sure where the software will end up. Users can move around too easily. The software would only be delivered when the user is actually logged on which is usually not desireable.
Is there a unique thing that can be detected by relevance that appears only on machines where you want the software to end up?
If you are on BES 5+ I would use a group based on machine names to target my software distribution. With BES 6+ you might try an automatic group if you can find good targeting criteria to translate into relevance.
Cheers,
Brolly