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Currently, it seems like the declarations present in the declaration manifest are downloaded one by one and then processed (installed & activated). After this, a single status report that contains the status of all declarations that were processed would be sent to the server. Does the processing of the downloaded declaration happen immediately after they all are downloaded or is it attempted periodically? or both? Is it possible to receive multiple status reports that might contain the status of a subset of declarations downloaded? Is there a way or plan to support the download of multiple declarations in a single request? Is there a way or plan to send a download URL to the device for downloading a declaration? These answers would help us in designing our MDM server better.

As part of declarative management, a status report would be sent by the device whenever there is a state change. If for some reason, the server missed saving this status report, is there a way to get the entire status (snapshot) of the device? So that the server has a way to recover through an on-demand request or any other similar mechanism. During intermittent network issues, if the device could not connect to the server to send the status report, would there be a retry mechanism to attempt to send the status whenever the connection with the server is successful?

The declarative device management video demonstrates how today's profile management can be achieved through configuration type declaration. I'm interested and curious to know about the plans for mechanisms to manage applications through declarations. I'm wondering if there could be a new type of declaration for managed applications or would it be accommodated with the existing type of declarations (say, assets or configuration)?