Deployment Purpose and Notifications

These two settings describe the assignment itself: whether the user chooses to install, and what the user is told while it happens. They are read at the moment the assignment is created, so they matter only when an assignment is actually made — see Auto Assignment.

Deployment Purpose

Option	On the Mac	Can the user remove it?
Available	The application appears in Company Portal as installable. Nothing happens until the user presses Install.	Yes, from Company Portal.
Required	The application is installed automatically, without the user asking for it.	No.

Available is the default.

Required is the setting that makes an installation mandatory. If what you want is "install this on every Mac in the group without asking", this is the field to change — it is not something the Application / Update mode controls.

Per-application override

If a product has Application Custom Settings with its own deployment purpose, that value is used instead of the global one. A product with custom settings but no purpose of its own falls back to the global value.

End User Notifications

Controls what the end user sees on the Mac while the assignment does its work.

Option	Behaviour
Show all toast notifications	The user is notified of installation activity and of restarts. This is the default.
Show toast notifications for computer restarts only	Installation happens quietly; only restart prompts are shown.
Hide all toast notifications	Nothing is shown to the user.

Per-application override

As with the deployment purpose, a product's own Application Custom Settings value takes precedence. Products without one use the global setting.

Existing installations that were configured before this setting existed behave as Show all toast notifications. The default was chosen so that upgrading Easy2Patch does not silently change what your users see.

Which one do I want?

You want	Set
The user decides when to install	Deployment Purpose = Available
Every Mac in the group gets it	Deployment Purpose = Required
Required, but without interrupting the user	Purpose = Required, Notifications = Hide all or Restarts only
A pilot group first	Assign only the pilot group under Azure Groups, then widen it

Related pages

• Auto Assignment

• Application and Update Modes