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Hi,
As I know I can deploy Application to User Collections and set it as "An administrator must approve a request for this application on the device" and set the E-Mail address to approve.
Some our Users have to windows Client machine with the same user account (for example: user1), it means if I deploy a application to the user collection( with user1), the application is available for both Windows client machine because the user1 log on the both Windows machine with the "user1"
If I deploy the same application to the device Collections and set "An administrator must approve a request for this application on the device" , as I know it will be not appear in Software center. Until I select "Install Application" and deploy it to that device, it will install immediately. Am I right?
My questions:
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It is not possible to deploy an application to a specific Windows machine when the user has logged in to multiple machines with the same user account. When deploying an application to a user collection with the option "An administrator must approve a request for this application on the device", the application will be available on all machines where the user has logged in. Similarly, when deploying the application to a device collection with the same option, the application will not appear in Software Center until it is approved and deployed to that specific device.
One possible workaround is to create a separate user account for the user on the second Windows machine and deploy the application to a user collection with the option "An administrator must approve a request for this application on the device". This way, the application will only be available on the machine where the user is logged in with the designated user account.
Another option is to use the client setting "Hide unapproved applications in Software Center" to hide the application from Software Center on the second Windows machine. This way, the application will still be available for installation on both machines, but will only be visible in Software Center on the first machine.
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separate user cannot create because it is not our internal policy, I know that is a way.
the second option you mention, with "Hide unapproved applications in Software Center", it is a general setting for all devices. How can I separate that option for some windows machine? I have no idea.
What with primary user for a device or primary device? Is that a option?
How can I separate that option for some windows machine?
You can create a custom client device setting, and deploy to the specific device collection.
The custom client setting has a higher priority than the default client setting.
What with primary user for a device or primary device? Is that a option for deploy application?
I'm afraid it's not an option, we can only pre-deploy software to the user's primary device.
You can create a custom client device setting, and deploy to the specific device collection.
I know how, I have to create a Device Collection or User Collection? and put my devices or my users in that. But Device Collection or User Collection?
Create a device collection and put the user's second Windows machine in that. This way, the application will only be visible in Software Center on the first machine.
Sorry, if I create a device Collection, I cannot select any user s in that, you mean the windows machine in that. Am I right?
If I select that "Hide unapproved applications in Software Center", it means that machine cannot see any application in software center any more?
What I want is the following:
for example:
. Deploy ZOOM should should appear in Software Center in Windows machine A and not in Windows machine B
. Deploy Notepad++ should appear in software Center on Windows machine A and B
. Deploy Java should appear in software center on Windows machine B and not in Windows machine A
all that applications I want to deploy should be approval by Administrators, on user collections. Is that possible?
I thought you want to make all applications not appear in software center on Windows machine B.
Now it's clear, I think you may consider to create a device requirement or custom requirement in deployment types of each application to exclude the device that you do not want to deploy.
I am not sure if I understand what you mean. I want to deploy many applications using use collections and not device collection, because by user collections all the deployed application will appear in Software center even the Administrator has approved that.
do you have a example for your screen shot or a link how I can define it?
For example, if you want to deploy ZOOM to a user and make it appear in machine A but not machine B.
I don't know why you want to make it only appear in machine A, so I assume the ZOOM can only be deployed to windows 10, the machine A is windows 10 but the machine B is windows 11.
Then we can add a requirement in the application deployment type to make only windows 10 machines can get the deployment, but you can still deploy the application to a user device and need an approvement.