m.richards

So the specifics would be "Windows OS (Client)" but that solution doesn't avoid my main issue of not wanting to do anything manually to add/remove computers. Also this over complicates the issue because each SG only contains one type of computer anyway so theres no need to add sub-DGs. I thought you were suggesting we could: Computers Office 1 Computer type 1 SG DG1 * Computer Type 2 SG Office 2 Computer type 1 SG DG1 * Computer Type 2 SG * same DG assigned to multiple ST It sounds like I'll probably need to reorganize my OU structure which I really hoped to avoid. Semi-related question, why was the ERA CLI management dropped? I get it's not commonly required but would really help in situations like this. Is this something that is likely to return in future releases?

Unfortunately we've managed to use the OU structure for everything else so both PC naming format and network are the same from each "Office #" OU. I've also checked the rest of the options in New Group Template and none of them guarantee we would capture all relevant PCs. Because we have multiple static groups I don't think this would help us as I don't think I can add 1 DG to multiple SGs so I'd have the same issue needing to manually add policies to the groups I want unless I've missed something?

I have a seemingly bespoke situation because I can't find any documentation to support what I'm trying to do. I have all computers in the same Active Directory; I only want to manage some of them via ESMC but I don't want to manually add PCs to groups. For example AD OU structure is: AD DOMAIN OUs: >Computers >>Office 1 >>>Computer Type 1 >>>Computer Type 2 >>Office 2 >>>Computer Type 1 >>>Computer Type 2 etc. All "Computer Type 1" PCs I want to install ESET and manage via ESMC but all "Computer Type 2" PCs have different licensing and different non-ESET Antivirus. If we have to manually add PCs or new static groups to policies eventually one will get missed and PCs will be unprotected so I want a dynamic solution. Ideally I want to sync AD OUs to ESMC Static Groups as usual but then create Dynamic Groups that include all PCs from Static Groups that are called "Computer Type 1". I saw an old forum post for Remote Administrator 6 that said this functionality was coming in V7 but can't find it. Is this possible? Alternatively is it possible import PCs into static groups from a csv via a Server Task? That way I could create a Windows server task to export computers from desired OUs to a csv and create a ESMC task to import the csv on schedule? Finally is it possible to manage the ESMC via command-line? I found old documentation that says use the eracmd.exe but this doesn't seem to exist in my ESMC install directory? If CLI is still possible can we script the csv import? Thanks! Matt