Deployment Guide

Dell OptiPlex and Latitude conversions
Prerequisites
● Ensure that you have configured the USB bootable drive with the ISO image.
1. Go to https://www.dell.com/support and search for the device product page or the Dell Hybrid Client product page.
2. Click Drivers and Downloads and download the zip file.
3. Extract the ISO file from the zip file.
4. Create a USB bootable media using one of the following methods:
○ If using Windows, do the following:
a. Download and install the OS Recovery tool from https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-in/drivers/osiso/
recoverytool.
b. Open the Dell OS Recovery Tool and select the SWITCH TO ADVANCED RECOVERY option.
c. Under Select an OS Image, browse to the ISO file and open.
d. Click NEXT.
e. Plug in a USB drive and select the USB drive on the screen.
f. Click BURN OS.
○ If using Linux, you can follow the steps mentioned in https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-in/sln301761/how-to-
use-the-dell-hosted-recovery-image-of-linux.
○ You can also use other Third party tools to prepare a bootable USB drive with the ISO.
● Ensure that the number of Hybrid Client licenses is more than the number of devices to be converted to Dell Hybrid Client.
The Dell Hybrid Client licenses can be imported into Wyse Management Suite.
About this task
The process of converting Ubuntu and Windows 10 to Dell Hybrid Client does not preserve any data, certificates or
configuration settings from the original operating system. However, you can restore the original operating system using the
OS Recovery Tool from the https://www.dell.com/support. The existing data and settings are not restored.
Steps
1. Go to BIOS setup > Secure Boot and uncheck Secure Boot Enable.
2. Go to BIOS setup > System Configuration and select SATA Operation as AHCI.
3. Plug in the bootable USB drive into the device and boot the device to USB drive.
4. Select restore entire hard drive option on the Dell recovery screen and continue.
NOTE: Select a drive, if device has multiple drives available.
The device boots into Dell Hybrid Client when the installation is completed. The device registers to Wyse Management Suite
by the auto discovery method. Alternatively, you can register the device manually to Wyse Management Suite using the Dell
Client Agent user interface.
For information about how to use the Dell Client Agent window to manually register the device to Wyse Management Suite,
see the Dell Hybrid Client Administrator's Guide at https://www.dell.com/support.
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