Dell Wyse ThinOS Version 8.6 Administrator’s Guide

Automating updates and settings using central configuration

ThinOS is centrally managed and configured using INI files to automatically push updates and any desired default configuration to thin clients in your environment. This section describes how to set up your environment to provide your thin clients running ThinOS with automatic updates and configurations in three simple steps. If no INI files are detected, you can use local dialog boxes on each thin client to configure the settings. Many of these locally configured settings such as resolution, mouse, and keyboard are saved on ThinOS to persist after reboot. However, once INI files are detected, rebooting the client causes ThinOS to become stateless, and ignores the locally configured settings after a reboot. The settings contained in the INI file are used.