Before you begin creating groups with the Mobile Devices Administration Center, think about the types of ¸ðºô »ç¿ëÀÚ in your organization. Users in almost any organization naturally fall into groups according to the type of work that they do. For example, imagine you are a hospital database administrator responsible for delivering data synchronization services to 10 hospitals throughout the country. Visiting nurses in a home health care program and emergency room shift supervisors would naturally fall into two groups because they have different sets of job responsibilities. However, there are other criteria you should consider when structuring your user groups. Ask yourself the following questions to determine if a given set of users should belong to the same group:
Each mid-tier system has a different installation of the Sync Server. Thus, all members of a group in the Mobile Devices Administration Center must use the same mid-tier system to synchronize data. For example, in your role as hospital database administrator you might, for performance reasons, have a different Sync Server for each hospital; therefore the users might need to be further divided if their physical locations are different.
Members of groups must use the same set of replication subscriptions. Thus, users who require access to different files or tables (or even different columns of the same table) must be placed into different groups.
SQL access privileges are defined for each replication source in a subscription, and that subscription is assigned to an entire group. Thus, if users require different types of access to the same replication source, they must be members of different groups.
You might have a group of nurses, for example, who all require access to the same table. However, are some nurses allowed to only insert data, but others are allowed to update or delete data? Are other nurses allowed to only view the data without changing it? For example, you might have a group of nurses in training that you allow to only view the data. When these nurses complete their training, you move them from the Training data synchronization group to another group for which you defined additional SQL privileges.
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