Creating Custom Groups

Desktop Central provides an option to create custom group of computers and users, which can be used to as targets for applying the configurations. The advantages of custom groups are:

1. You can have any number of custom groups to group computers and users of a specific department. You can create this once and can use these groups as targets for deploying the configurations.
2. You can add or remove users/computers from groups at any point of time.
3. Groups once created can be used in any number of configurations.

To create a custom group, follow the steps below:

1. Select the Admin tab
2. Click the Custom Groups link available under the Global Settings. This will list all the Custom Groups that have been created.
3. Click the Create New Group button and specify the following values:
   1. Specify a name for the custom group. This should be unique.
   2. Select the Domain or the Workgroup from the list.
   3. Select the Group Type as Computers or Users. This will list the available computers/users in the selected domain.
      Tip: By default, the users/computers will get displayed in Tree View. Use List View link to view users/computers as a list. Manual entry of computers/users is possible using Manual Input option.
   4. Select the computers/users and move them to the Added list.
4. Click Submit to create the group.

Repeat step 3 & 4 for creating more groups.

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List View

1. Click on the List View link for the users/computers to be displayed as a list.
2. Click on a particular alphabet to view the users/computers with names that begin with alphabet specified. Use All link to list all the users/computers.
3. Click on the Sort link to sort the listed user/computer names.

Tip: You can use the "Ignore-Prefix" option in combination with your choice of alphabet. This will list all users/computers that have the specified prefix and whose names begin with selected alphabet. For example, the figure belows shows a case where DC is specified in Ignore-Prefix and the alphabet chosen is W. The resultant list therefore shows all the computers who have 'DC' as their prefix but whose names begin with alphabet 'W'.

Manual Input Option

1. Click on the Manual Input tab for the users/computers to be manually added.
2. Specify a valid User/Computer in the text field.
3. Click on '>>' button to add the user/computer in the custom group
   

Incorrect User/Computer will not be added and the application will throw an error. In that case, specify the correct User/Computer name and add it again.

4. Click on Create Group button to complete custom group creation.

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