ExpanDrive For Teams
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ExpanDrive for Teams is a solution designed to help manage, configure, and deploy large teams and groups of users with a shared configuration for ExpanDrive.
In the Teams management console, you can think of a configuration as a pre-configured set of favorites and options for deployment to a group of users. A configuration has a unique license key that retrieves the defined favorites and settings when activated. This license key can also be specified during installation so when a user launches ExpanDrive for the first time they are fully configured.
Each configuration contains a set of drives, app settings, and license settings. You create your configuration in the panel and when you're ready and then you can publish the configuration so that it becomes lives. Devices that are already activated using the configuration's license key will receive the new configuration automatically.
For each drive in the list of drives you can set all the standard options you would as if you were configuring the client on a regular machine. In addition there is the Defer Authentication option which lets a drive mount even if the user has never authenticated with the storage service they are connecting to. In this case below, a user will have a drive mapping to Sharepoint visible on their machine even if they haven't authenticated with Microsoft. When they go to use the drive the first time, an authentication dialog will pop up prompting them to authenticate with Microsoft.
The app settings tab lets you configure a variety of application-level options that get pushed to the end user. For OneDrive/Sharepoint configurations we offer a special option that attempts single sign-on, where available. Under domain hint, put the domain of the end-user's email address that will be authenticating. For instance, if your organization was contoso.org, and you had SSO set up with ADFS you'd set contoso.org as your domain hint.
Current there are two global license settings. Managed connections, which when enabled, prevents a user from adding or removing drives and managed settings disallows a user from changing any of the settings you have pre-configured.
The user's tab provides the ability to get a picture of which users are active with your ExpanDrive installation as well as the ability to change out the configuration you have set for them.
You can manually create users based on their email address [AD/LDAP integration in beta, reach out if you're interested in trying it out], or user's will automatically show up based on configuration key activation. They won't show up with their email address, but you will see them based on the username set on the machine they activate from.
You can optionally change the configuration a user has assigned, if they move from one team to another, for instance.
