# Web Management Console

Paying customers receive access to the Web Management Console, which lets you manage, configure, and deploy a shared ExpanDrive configuration to large teams and groups of users. Use it when you want every device on a team to mount the same set of drives with the same settings, without configuring each device individually.

Sign in to the Web Management Console from the ExpanDrive homepage.

## Configurations

In the Web Management Console, a configuration is a pre-defined set of favorites and options for deployment to a group of users. Each configuration has a unique license key that retrieves the defined favorites and settings when activated. When that license key is entered during installation, ExpanDrive is fully configured as soon as installation completes.

Each configuration contains a set of drives, app settings, and license settings. Create, update, and publish your configurations within the Web Management Console. Devices already activated with the configuration's license key receive the new published configuration automatically.

### Drive Settings

Drive settings are defined the same way as connections within the client program, using the connection parameters of each connection type.

When adding a drive to a configuration, you can enable the *Defer Authentication* option to mount a drive even if the user has not yet authenticated with that storage service. The user is prompted to authenticate the first time they interact with the drive. Defer Authentication is useful for services that use OAuth, where the user must complete the sign-in flow themselves.

### App Settings

Use the App settings for a configuration to manage application-level options for the end user.

OneDrive and SharePoint configurations support a single sign-on option where available. To enable SSO, add the domain of the end user's sign-on email address in the *Domain hint* field.

### License Settings

Two global license settings control what users associated with the configuration can change. Enabling *Managed connections* prevents a user from adding or removing drives. Enabling *Managed settings* prevents a user from changing any of the settings you have pre-configured.

## Users

The Users list lets you monitor which users are active, when they last used the connection, and which configuration they are assigned.

You can manually create users by email address, or they are automatically added to the users list when they activate a configuration key (license key).

You can change the configuration a user has assigned at any time, which is useful when a user moves from one team to another. You can also remove a user altogether.


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