How to Distribute Software Using AD Groups
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Submitted by ptyler13 on 31 July, 2008 - 16:05.
In the latest user group meeting, many have asked how a target collection can be created using AD groups for software delivery or other actions. I have found a KB article that tells you how to use SQL criteria to take AD Groups (With Users) and turn them into machine collections for NS policies.
Here is the article for reference: https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=39250&p.... It is KB article number 39250.
I hope this helps!
Patrick
(28 votes)
This works great
We have been using this method to deploy software for a while now.
The only downside is that sometimes users may use more than one computer or users may share a computer so if software licensing is an issue you may want to be careful with this one.
It really does save a lot of time though and makes it so that you never have to modify the collection once it is created.
No Security Groups in Resource Management
Do you do anything special to import your security groups from AD? Looking under Resource Management>Collections>Directory Collections>My Domain I have three folders:
Organizational Units
Organizational Units - Users to Machines
Sites
I can not find where Security Groups - Users to Machines is and am wondering if I am not importing them in our Active Directory import.
Any advice would be appreciated as I would like to take advantage of this for our company. Thanks.
You need to create a new AD Import rule
Hi theMike,
You need to add an additional AD Import rule. When you define the rule, you want to import User resources from a Source of "Security Groups". Check both boxes for "Create security group collections" and "Match computers with primary users". Define your domain in the first part of the import config, then in the "starting from" part, you can add the groups you want to import.