Clean Up Tool Exclusion Picker
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Max Waddoups
The new clean up tool is a good idea in principle, however, there may be occasions where removing all stale devices is not ideal. For example, we have some staff away on maternity leave or long term sick, those devices are still valid, but have not been online for over 90 days. It would be nice if the clean up tool was expanded to allow more granular control over which devices would be excluded, a simple picker would be sufficient. Without the ability to exclude devices, the task becomes manual again, going through the list and checking.
Minetta Gould
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Max Waddoups
Minetta - The new controls look good. We have not used them yet, but are planning to. Good to see these sorts of features being implemented. I noticed the comments from another user on the link you provided. It would be good to see this feature expanded in the future to support automated operations.
Minetta Gould
Max Waddoups: Great! Glad to hear those updates will help. We have the request to automate uninstalls captured in a different feature request, so you can vote there to be notified of any updates on that request!
For now it can be scheduled via API + a task schedule, and a customer provide an example script in the comments that might be useful. Closing this one out, and thank you so much for the suggestion!
Minetta Gould
Quick check-in on this one! In December, we shipped updates to the Clean Up tool to add more flexibility, and it’s also much easier now to clean up devices directly from the Roaming Client table.
For those who requested more control over stale device cleanup (like excluding long-leave devices)—are these updates hitting the mark, or is there still something missing? If we don’t hear back within two weeks, we’ll assume this request is fulfilled and close it out as launched 🚀
Dennis Peabody
Agreed, I cannot use the Clean Up tool for the same reason. Or, it would select them, and you could manually unselect before executing