Connected Provisioning

Delivering pre-configured, ready to work devices faster and easier by leveraging the cloud.

How it works: Using your Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) solution, like Intune, we provision your systems in our factory from the cloud. All your applications and settings are loaded in factory then shipped directly to the end user, no matter where that user is. With just a few keystrokes, your end users complete the provisioning process in just a few minutes.

**New enhancement:** The **[[Profile assignment rules]]** page allows an administrator to add predefined rules for automatically assigning profiles to future orders. You can also prioritize rules to ensure they run according to the specified conditions. The rules are classified as follows: - **[[Active]]** rule—a rule is active when it is applied and enforced for profile assignment. - **[[Inactive]]** rule—a rule is inactive when it is not being used to assign profiles. It can be activated when needed. - **[[Invalid]]** rule—are rules that have issues which prevent them from being applied for profile assignment.

The updated landing page showcases the new rules engine tile for "Profile assignment rules". Within, authorized users can create rules, set priorities and conditions for profile assignment. You can set up to four conditions. The rules are executed sequentially based on the priority for applicable orders. If no rules apply, assign a profile manually to those orders.

By leveraging the cloud, we are speeding up the way devices are configured. **Connected Provisioning** is a customized solution designed to benefit IT and the end user. What used to take weeks or even months has now been lessened to just days. The reduced time to deliver and be productive makes receiving a new PC as easy as setting up a new phone. To get started, navigate to "Build & Deploy" in your left navigation and select "Connected Provisioning".

This is a look at your main dashboard in Connected Provisioning. If you are a **channel partner**, you will have the option to "select account". Direct customers will not have an account selection option. As well, channel accounts can share profiles. Feel free to explore this page and to get started with this experience, let's select our account.

Select "my company".

Select "Orders".

You will enter your Orders dashboard where you can get a quick glance at open action items for your orders and profiles. You can drill down into specific orders to identify status and account details. The profile is used to register the customer's UEM solution. Dell connects the device to the internet to allow for customer's UEM provisioning deployment. Let's open the first order in the list to view the details.

You can visualize where this order is in the process and the pending action needed. We need to select a profile to continue. Click "select profile".

We can select the default profile or search for another. For this experience, we will use the default profile. Select "use this profile".

Confirm you selected the appropriate profile and continue.

You will be brought back to your orders detail page. As this is a simulator, the data will not update. Let's go back to our orders page.

Let's take a look at the second order.

You'll notice this order is further along in the process with the profile details added. Now, let's go back to the orders page again.

Let's go into our "profiles" page. Click "View all profiles".

From your profiles page, you can edit all your existing profiles or create a new one. If you are a partner, you have the option to share a profile as seen in this screen shot example. Let's click "create new".

Name your profile. Select the UEM of your choice. Note the options that populate with both choices.

Validate your provisioning account details to proceed. As this is a simulated experience, you can skip over inserting these details.

Next, you would select your operating system, version and the language.

For channel partners, this is where you would have the option to share this profile. Since we are not going to save this profile, let's click "cancel" to go back to our main profiles page.

From your main profiles page, you can set a default profile or disable it and choose a different one. Let's continue to choose a different default profile.

Find the profile you want to make default and select "make default". You will be brought back to the main profiles page.

Since this is a simulated experience we can "cancel and go back" now that we have walked through setting up a new profile, sharing and setting as default.

Now, from our main Connected Provisioning dashboard. If this was your first time using Connected Provisioning, you would be required to create a profile and approve the export compliance terms before managing orders. This is to ensure that the export of your software complies with all federal regulations. You can sign or share the terms with an authorized signatory for your company. Let's go into "Export Compliance".

Agree or, in this case, update export terms. You will note the signatory and date signed in the header.

This is the frame to sign or send the export terms to an authorized signatory.

Agree to the terms and submit.

The Export Compliance header will update and we can now go back to our Connected Provisioning dashboard to manage orders and profiles.

Congratulations! You have now completed a walk through of Connected Provisioning. We walked through how to read your orders dashboard, create and manage profiles and the terms and conditions of export compliance. Thank you!