The agents are installed automatically in the end-user's device and the installable gets deleted after a successful installation. This is used in places where there is minimal restriction on bandwidth consumption. Agents can be automatically installed in LAN network or in a remote office having a Distribution Server.

• From Web Console: Automate agent installation from the product web console
• Using SoM Policy: Agents get automatically installed in new machines when they are added to Active Directory
• Remote agent installation: Install agents in remote office with or without a Distribution Server

When an enterprise has an Active Directory Domain based setup with numerous endpoints to be managed, the Desktop Central agent can be installed using the Group Policy Object.

• Using GPO light-weight tool: Simplest method to install agent in an Active Directory based network
• Using GPO scheduler: Fastest method to install the agent. Agents will be installed in the next refresh cycle
• Using GPO start-up script: Most common method of agent installation using GPO

For enterprises which have new machines to be managed and where the required operating system has to be deployed, the Desktop Central agent can be deployed with the OS. 

• Windows OS imaging
• Mac OS imaging
• Linux OS imaging

1. Navigate to the Agent tab > Agent Installation > Other methods > Download the zip folder present under SCCM tab.
2. Extract the DesktopCentralAgent.msi, DesktopCentralAgent.mst, and DCAgentServerInfo.json files, and paste them in a shared path accessible by all the computers you want to install the agent on.
3. Change the shared path location as mentioned in the batch file, and create an SCCM package with this script.
4. Deploy this package, and the agents will be installed in the target computers.

Desktop Central server can be hosted in cloud using Microsoft Azure or AWS. The agents can be deployed in Azure AD and AWS instances.

• In Azure AD environment: Agents can be installed with Intune or Azure automation Service
• To AWS instances: Agents can be deployed in bulk in AWS

When there are numerous roaming users which move out of the network periodically or when there is bandwidth constraints, the installable can be downloaded and placed in a shared folder.

• Download agent installable

When there are numerous endpoints in a workgroup based setup in an enterprise, using IP ranges, agents can be deployed in bulk to all the devices.

• IP ranges: Agent can be installed using IP address or IP ranges or using computer names