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Installing and Uninstalling Group Apps

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The Apps for a Group section lets you install or uninstall both privately uploaded applications—also known as Enterprise Applications—and Google Play Apps to a Group immediately. The applications can be installed or uninstalled to devices actively communicating with Esper. 

In this article: 

Install or Uninstall App

Step 1: To install an application on all the devices in the Group, go to the Group in Devices & Groups and select the More Actions dropdown ellipsis button (...). You may need to expand the side panel.

App Uninstall works the same way. Select Uninstall from the dropdown instead.

Then select Properties.

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This section also lets you schedule an application installation or uninstallation for a specific point in the future. To schedule an install, navigate to the Scheduled Install tab. Learn more about Scheduling App Installations.

Step 1: To install an application on all the devices in the Group, go to the Group in Devices & Groups. You may need to adjust your View to List: Groups. 

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Then select the Group. Press the Actions dropdown and select App Management. 

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Select Install from the Select Application Action dropdown.

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Step 2: Device info shows the number of offline and online devices.

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Step 3: Select the application you’d like to install from the Select App dropdown.

You can type the first few letters of the application’s name into the search box to quickly find the application.

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Step 4: Select application version. If you select the check box for manage configurations, you will be prompted to enter JSON code.

Managed configurations will allow the administrator to remotely configure work applications.

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Notes:

  1. Manage configurations can be applied to Android devices 5.0 or above.

  2. All applications will accept the JSON values, but changes will only take place for apps that allow configuration changes.

  3. Manage configurations cannot be applied to a Google Play store application while installing it. However, an installed application can have managed configurations.

The following is a sample code for Chrome (version 86 and above) Manage Configuration:

{"URLBlocklist":[
              "example.com",
              "https://ssl.server.com",
              "hosting.com/bad_path",
              "https://server:8080/path",
              ".exact.hostname.com",
              "file://*",
              "custom_scheme:*",
              "*"],
              "SafeBrowsingProtectionLevel":1,
          
              "HomepageLocation":"https://www.chromium.org", "CookiesBlockedForUrls":[
              "https://www.example.com",
              "[*.]example.edu"
              ],
                "DefaultGeolocationSetting":3     
              }

The following is a sample code for Chrome (Version below 86) Manage Configuration:

{"URLBlacklist":[
          "example.com",
          "https://ssl.server.com",
          "hosting.com/bad_path",
          "https://server:8080/path",
          ".exact.hostname.com",
          "file://*",
          "custom_scheme:*",
          "*"],
          "SafeBrowsingProtectionLevel":1,
          
          "HomepageLocation":"https://www.chromium.org", "CookiesBlockedForUrls":[
          "https://www.example.com",
          "[*.]example.edu"
          ],
            "DefaultGeolocationSetting":3     
          }

Click the links to find out more about JSON Settings and Accessibility Settings.

You can check the history of application installation/schedules. Click the View link under the manage configurations column to see the JSON code.

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You can also view the managed configurations by clicking the information icon. On the slide-out, click on the view configuration link.

Step 5: Once you’ve selected an application, its details will appear in the Application Details Preview section.

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Step 6: Check Queue requests to offline devices box if required and click Install. Requests usually time out within seven days from when it was requested if the device never comes online.

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Step 7: You can check the status of the installation on the slide-out from the right.

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