Application associations across Organizations

Hi,
The tree on a customers site is built like this:
[ROOT]
O=ORG1
OU=SITE1
OU=USERS111
OU=USERS112
OU=SITE2
OU=USERS121
OU=USERS122
O=ORG2
OU=USERS201
OU=APPS
This is only a small part, the total number of OU's is over 100.
I want to associate some applications with all users in OU=USERS111 and OU=USERS121, but not OU=USERS112 and OU=USERS122.
How can I do this without having to associate every user or OU with the application?
I tried with a group that contains all users and associate the application with the group, but the users don't see the application. Inheritance level is set to -1, so NAL looks up to the root. Read group for users is on.
Where should I put the group?

Assign the Application directly to that User's OU instead a higher level OU.
If you will frequently be assigning apps to a large number of OUs and the
OUs to which they will be assigned is usually the same,
you may find that setting up a little batch file and using a tool such as
AppAssoc.exe can quickly do the assignments from the command line.
Note: A Groups Location plays zero role as to whether an app is deployed to
the user.
ZEN will reach the app:assoc attribute of each and every group a user
belongs and present each and every app that passes system requirements.
For this reason, it is recommended that the GROUP be stored in a relatively
close replica. (This applies to all groups)
Craig Wilson - MCNE, MCSE, CCNA
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>
> Hi,
>
> The tree on a customers site is built like this:
> [ROOT]
> O=ORG1
> OU=SITE1
> OU=USERS111
> OU=USERS112
> OU=SITE2
> OU=USERS121
> OU=USERS122
> O=ORG2
> OU=USERS201
> OU=APPS
>
> This is only a small part, the total number of OU's is over 100.
>
> I want to associate some applications with all users in OU=USERS111 and
> OU=USERS121, but not OU=USERS112 and OU=USERS122.
>
> How can I do this without having to associate every user or OU with the
> application?
>
> I tried with a group that contains all users and associate the
> application with the group, but the users don't see the application.
> Inheritance level is set to -1, so NAL looks up to the root. Read group
> for users is on.
> Where should I put the group?
>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Arjan
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