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Edit a group

How you change a group after it has been created depends on what you want to change and on the group type.

Change the name or description

Section titled “Change the name or description”
  1. Right-click the group and select Properties.
  2. Change the Name or Description.
  3. Optional: enter a Change description, and click OK.

Static groups

Section titled “Static groups”

Membership of a static group is maintained manually.

Remove a unit from the group

  1. Select the group in the navigation pane.
  2. In the content view on the right, right-click a unit (or select several) and select Unlink.

Add a unit to the group — use one of these methods:

  • Drag the unit onto the group.
  • Add the units to the unit buffer, then right-click the group and select Paste computers or Paste users. The number of units in the buffer is shown after the menu item.
  • Run the CMS_AddComputerToStaticGroup function from an OS Deployment script or a package.

Dynamic groups

Section titled “Dynamic groups”

A dynamic group’s membership is defined by a query in Reporting and Queries and is maintained automatically by the Replicator. To change which units are members, edit the underlying report, or switch the group to another query.

Edit the query

  1. Open the report the dynamic group is based on in Reporting and Queries.
  2. Adjust the query criteria and save the report.

The Replicator updates the group membership on its next run.

Switch to another query

  1. Right-click the dynamic group and select Properties.
  2. Select Switch to this query, and select the new query in the list.
  3. Optional: enter a Change description, and click OK.
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