User Device Affinity

As discussed in Chapter 13, user-centric is a main theme in ConfigMgr 2012. This means managing your users as well as the systems in your environment. This is most evident when deploying applications; no longer do you have to assign applications to systems that do not use applications. Instead, the users who request and actually use the applications are targeted, allowing the application to potentially follow users around to multiple systems or their new system without any additional work.

This last part is directly applicable to OSD. If you choose to deploy applications to users instead of systems in your organization, you can essentially forget about having to add any user-specific applications to your task sequences. ...

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