Dell Wyse Management Suite Version 1.3 Administrator’s Guide

Creating and deploying standard application policy to Wyse Software Thin Clients

To deploy a standard application policy to Wyse Software Thin Clients, do the following:

1. In the local repository, go to softwareTcApps, and copy the application to the folder.

2. Ensure that the application is registered by navigating to the Apps & Data tab and selecting Wyse Software thin client under App Inventory.
   NOTE: The App Inventory interface takes approximately two minutes to populate any recently added programs.

3. Click Apps & Data.

   Apps & Data page is displayed.

4. In App Policies, click Wyse Software Thin Client.

5. Click Add Policy.

   Add Standard App Policy window is displayed.

6. Enter the Policy Name.

7. From the drop-down list, select the Group.
8. From the drop-down list, select the Task.
9. From the drop-down list, select the OS Type.
10. From the drop-down list, select the Application.

11. To deploy this policy to a specific operating system or a platform, select either OS Subtype Filter or Platform Filter.

12. Timeout displays a message on the client which gives you time to save your work before the installation begins. Specify the number of minutes the message dialog box should be displayed on the client.

13. To allow delay in execution of the policy, select the Allow delay of policy execution check box. If this option is selected, the following drop-down menus are enabled:
    • From the Max Hours per Delay drop-down list, select the maximum hours (1–24 hours) you can delay the policy execution.

    • From the Max delays drop-down list, select the number of times (1–3) you can delay execution of the policy.

14. From the Apply Policy Automatically drop-down list, select any one of the following options:
    • Do not apply automatically— This options does not apply any policy automatically to the devices.
    • Apply the policy to new devices—This option automatically applies the policy to a registered device which belongs to a selected group or is moved to a selected group.
    • Apply the policy to devices on check in—This option is automatically applied to the device at check-in.
    NOTE: For Windows based devices, specify the silent installation parameters for .exe files to execute the application in the silent mode. For example, VMware-Horizon-Client-4.6.1-6748947.exe /silent /install /norestart
15. Click Save to create a policy.

    A message is displayed to allow the administrator to schedule this policy on devices based on group.

16. Select Yes to schedule a job on the same page.
17. The application policy job can run: 

    1. Immediately—Server runs the job immediately.

    2. On device time zone—Server creates one job for each device time zone and schedules the job to the selected date/time of the device time zone.

    3. On selected time zone—Server creates one job to run at the date/time of the designated time zone.

18. To create the job, click Preview and schedules are displayed on the next page.

19. You can check the status of the job by navigating to the Jobs page.