Administrator Guide
Getting started: Pre-requisites and supported
management features
Before using Conguration Manager, be sure to meet all pre-requisites and understand the supported management features for Dell Wyse
thin clients contained in the following sections:
• General Pre-requisites for Conguration Manager and Device Manager Support
• Management Features Supported
Topics:
• General pre-requisites for Conguration Manager and Device Manager support
• Management features supported
General pre-requisites for Conguration Manager and
Device Manager support
1 Conguration Manager 2012 R2 Client must be installed on the client device.
2 Conguration Manager 2012 R2 supported Dell Wyse scripts for preparing the image for capture, and deployment must be available
on the client device.
3 Additional storage space on client may be required to cache software updates.
4 Conguration Manager 2012 R2 infrastructure supporting Operating Systems Deployment (OSD).
5 Client device must be joined to a domain.
6 Client device must be discovered and available in the Conguration Manager server console.
Management features supported
Management features supported by Conguration Manager 2012 R2 on Dell Wyse thin clients with the WES7 builds are:
Conguration manager 2012 R2 supports:
• Asset Discovery
• Asset Inventory
• Image Pull
• Image Push
• Software package advertisement with Write-Filter Management
• Task Sequence advertisement
Some of the Conguration Manager features are:
• Deploying software applications
• Deploying software updates
• Deploying images
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