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Desktop Central enable remote configurations that can be applied to users and computers of the Windows domain-based network. The following sections guides you in configuring various Windows applications, security settings, display settings, firewall settings, and so on, to the Windows users and computers:
User Configurations: Explains the various configurations that can be deployed to users using Desktop Central and the steps to define them.
Computer Configurations: Explains the various configurations that can be deployed to computers using Desktop Central and the steps to define them.
Configuring Collections: Helps you to define a collection configurations that can be deployed simultaneously for several users or computers.
Defining Targets: Provides you the details of defining target computers and users for deploying the configuration.
Managing Configurations and Collections: Helps you to manage the defined configurations, such as viewing the status of the defined configurations or collections, suspending the deployment, resuming the suspended deployments, and so on.
Viewing Configuration Reports: Detailed report on the defined and deployed configurations using Desktop Central along with its status.
Viewing System Uptime Reports: Provides the details of uptime and downtime of computers in the specified period.
Whenever a configuration is deployed using Desktop Central, it will be made available to the Desktop Central agents to apply the configurations in the client computers. The Desktop Central Agents residing at the client computers will pull the configuration details from the Server and process them. The Desktop Central agents will contact the Server at the following intervals to pull the details:
For user-specific configurations - during user logon and every 90 minutes thereafter till the user logs out of the domain.
For computer-specific configurations - during system startup and every 90 minutes thereafter till the system is shutdown.
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