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Software Distribution
Use the BigFix Software Distribution applications to deploy software to endpoints across your network from a single location. Maintain control and visibility into software delivery and installation. Device owners can use the Self Service Application to manage software and other BigFix actions that are deployed to them as offers.
Software Distribution User's Guide
BigFix Software Distribution is a part of the Lifecycle Management suite, provides a consolidated, comprehensive solution to quickly deploy software throughout a network from a single, centralized location. This solution delivers cost-effective operational control and visibility to your software delivery and installation process.
Managing Application Management Groups
Group software distribution tasks and client computers for faster deployment, especially in large networks.
Orphaned owners
When a local operator is converted to an LDAP operator, the association between the operator name and shared packages and Application Management Groups of that local operator remains. However, that local operator no longer exists. Master operators must transfer resources of orphaned owners to an owner that exists.

Software Distribution
Use the BigFix Software Distribution applications to deploy software to endpoints across your network from a single location. Maintain control and visibility into software delivery and installation. Device owners can use the Self Service Application to manage software and other BigFix actions that are deployed to them as offers.
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- Software Distribution User's Guide
  BigFix Software Distribution is a part of the Lifecycle Management suite, provides a consolidated, comprehensive solution to quickly deploy software throughout a network from a single, centralized location. This solution delivers cost-effective operational control and visibility to your software delivery and installation process.
  - Overview
    The Software Distribution application is part of the BigFix Software Distribution Systems Lifecycle Management suite. This application enables organizations to improve management of their desktop software distribution processes from a single, unified point of control, and storage-optimized library.
  - Best practices
    Learn how to best optimize your use of BigFix Software Distribution.
  - Dashboards overview
    BigFix Software Distribution provides several dashboards for managing software distribution tasks in your deployment.
  - Managing packages
    You can bundle software distribution content into packages for faster deployment.
  - Managing Application Management Groups
    Group software distribution tasks and client computers for faster deployment, especially in large networks.
    - Creating a custom site
      Creating a custom site to host the Application Management Group deployments reduces the effect on the performance of the master action site.
    - Setting up viewing permissions
      Users of the Manage Application Management Groups dashboard who are master operators must set their permissions to view issued actions of other operators.
    - Creating Application Management Groups
      An Application Management Group is a collection of tasks and targets. When an Application Management Group is deployed, its tasks are distributed as offers or actions to all of its targets.
    - Adding tasks to an Application Management Group
      You can use any of the software distribution dashboards to select the tasks you want to add to an Application Management Group.
    - Adding targets to an Application Management Group
      You can add targets to an Application Management Group from the Manage Application Management Group dashboard.
    - Adding an exclusion to an Application Management Group
      You can add a target as an exclusion to remove it from the Application Management Group. When the Application Management Group is deployed, the tasks are distributed only to the targeted computer groups and not to the excluded computer group.
    - Deploying Application Management Groups
      Learn how Application Management Groups are deployed and how they relate to BigFix computer groups.
    - Orphaned owners
      When a local operator is converted to an LDAP operator, the association between the operator name and shared packages and Application Management Groups of that local operator remains. However, that local operator no longer exists. Master operators must transfer resources of orphaned owners to an owner that exists.
      - Transferring resources to the corresponding LDAP operator
        You can associate a resource of a converted local operator to its corresponding LDAP operator.
      - Transferring resources to a different operator
        You can associate a resource of a converted local operator to a different operator instead of the corresponding LDAP operator.
  - Frequently asked questions
    This section is designed to help you better understand BigFix Software Distribution through questions and answers.

Orphaned owners

When a local operator is converted to an LDAP operator, the association between the operator name and shared packages and Application Management Groups of that local operator remains. However, that local operator no longer exists. Master operators must transfer resources of orphaned owners to an owner that exists.