Is it possible to add a “pending” software deployment in the device information overview when the device has not been online? Now when I select pending it says: “If this device is part of a pending or scheduled deployment, the deployment will only appear here once it has started and the device has reported its update status to the server.”
I guess this is done this way for a reason. But how would I now know if a deployment if pending for a certain device I have selected that is not online?
Thanks for reaching out! To my knowledge this is not possible, as a deployment is not “pending” for devices per se, but “active” or not. The key difference is that the matching is done once a device checks in if there is a pending update, and the logic then gets evaluated - not the other way round, like creating a deployment and the devices get identified and set as pending immediately. This is, amongst other reasons, because of dynamic grouping. In such cases there is no way which devices are meant to receive the deployment, it might even change over time based on inventory data. Hence, the UI decision is based on the update-polling check-in by the device.