Dell Wyse Management Suite Version 1.3 Administrator’s Guide

Application policy

Wyse Management Suite supports the following types of application inventories and application deployment policies:

Configuring thin client application inventory
Configuring Wyse Software thin client application inventory
Creating and deploying standard application policy to thin clients
Creating and deploying advanced application policy to thin clients
Creating and deploying standard application policy to Wyse Software Thin Clients
Creating and deploying advanced application policy to Wyse Software Thin Clients

Important notes for Windows based devices:

Supports installation for windows based applications with extension .msi, .exe, .msu, .msp.
Application with any other extension is downloaded to %sytemdrive%\wyse\WDA" Ex: "C:\wyse\WDA
For deploying .exe applications by using Wyse Management Suite, follow the silent installation method. You must enter the appropriate silent parameters if required. For example, VMware-Horizon-Client-4.6.1-6748947.exe /silent /install /norestart
Supports script deployments with file extensions .bat, .cmd, .ps1, .vbs.
Script with any other extension is downloaded to %sytemdrive%\wyse\WDA" Ex: "C:\wyse\WDA.
Any script which is pushed by using Wyse Management Suite should be non-interactive which means there is no user interaction required during the installation.
In advanced application policy if there is a script/exe which returns value other than 0 then it is considered as a failure.
In advanced application policy if pre-install fails then application installation is not continued.
Any exe/scripts pushed by using standard application is reported as success with error code being updated in job status.
For applications with extension msi/msu/msp standard error codes is reported. If application returns REBOOT_REQUIRED then device goes through one extra reboot.

Important notes for Linux devices:

Supports installation for Linux based applications with extension .bin, .deb for ThinLinux 2.0 and .rpm for Thin Linux 1.0.
Supports script deployments for ThinLinux devices with extensions .sh.
In standard or advanced application policy if there is a script/deb/rpm which returns value other than 0 then it is considered as a failure.
In advanced application policy if pre-install fails then app installation is not continued.