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Software Policies Settings

Using the Create Software Policy wizard you can define which Software should be installed automatically on members of a computer group.

In the advanced software policy settings dialog you can establish whether the group is to be enabled for automatic evaluation of group conformance. This lets you determine how jobs are executed on those computers that do not fulfill all the conditions of group membership. Jobs can be automatically set up or set up and activated for members that do not conform.

You can set job linkage options to specify if jobs are run independently, or if on failure of one job, the remaining jobs for that target are aborted. Job execution can also be synchronized, meaning that a job is only activated when the previously contained job has completed.

For an alternative template group evaluation mechanism, see Ad Hoc Evaluation.

The Evaluation tab on the New Software Policy dialog covers both scheduled and ad hoc evaluation settings.