Deployments Targeting LDAP Groups

What

The FileWave WebAdminAnywhere has the capability to directlycan target LDAP OUsorganizational units (OUs) directly when defining a deployment. That Thismeans isyou can deploy to directory-based groups without first building a significantseparate improvementSmart overGroup previous FileWave versions which required special smart groupsjust to bemirror builtthe for this purpose.OU.

When/Why

WeUse willthis likelywhen the LDAP OU is the source of truth for the devices you want to useinclude thisor featureexclude. wheneverDirectory-based wetargeting haveworks somethingwell 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 inwhen the directory itselfdata is reliable.reliable; if device membership in LDAP is stale, the deployment target will be stale too.

How

ToTarget target (or exclude)exclude an LDAP OU in a deployment,deployment the same way you would target itanother indeployment asource. veryThe similarexample fashionbelow toshows howthe we target a smart group.  Example shown below:workflow: