# Deployments Targeting LDAP Groups

## 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:

<video controls="controls" height="300" width="600"><source src="https://kb.filewave.com/attachments/73"></source></video>