Local groups are groups that are created and managed directly in the Cortado administration portal. These can be groups of users or device groups. For example, you can combine all users of a department (e.g. Sales) into one group. Or you can create a group for all iPads in the company. Create a local group if you want to bundle several users or devices in order to assign them a uniform configuration. This makes administration much easier: instead of configuring each individual person or device separately, you can configure all members of a group at the same time. Alternatively, you can import groups from Microsoft Entra ID.
- To do so, select Administration→ Groups in the Administration Portal (arrow in illus.).
- Then click on the Plus button above left in the display (arrow in illus.).
- Now select Local Group (arrow in illus.).
- After this choose a name (upper arrow in illus.) and, if required, a description for your group and then click on OK.
- A group is enabled by default (lower arrow in illus.). A disabled group is treated as non-existent, i.e. all policies, profiles, apps, settings, etc. are no longer enforced for users or devices.
Select the Add new users automatically (arrow in illus.) checkbox if you want all new users to be automatically added to this group after they are imported into the administration portal.
Activate the Add new devices automatically checkbox if you want all new devices to be automatically added to this group after enrolling in the administration portal.
Then click OK.
- Create as many groups as you need.
Note. A user can be a member of several groups. New users can be automatically added either to none, to one or to several groups.