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# Waiting Room

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This feature is only available in [Portainer Business Edition](https://www.portainer.io/business-upsell?from=ca-file).
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The Edge Devices Waiting room lists any Edge Devices that have connected using the pre-deploy script and are pending association with the Portainer instance. The list can be filtered by Edge Group, group, and tag.

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To associate a device with your Portainer instance, tick the box next to the device and click **Associate Device**.