Administrator Guide

Whats new in this release?
• Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2016 LTSB support for the following devices:
• Edge Gateway—5000 Series
• Embedded PC 3000
• Embedded PC 5000
• Updated EDM help URL—EDM help has a separate URL which is determined based on the available licenses.
• Advanced application policy
• Ability to push multiple application packages within single policy.
• Applies policy to the devices that matches operating system or platform lters; or operating system and platform lters.
• Supports preinstallation, and postinstallation scripts.
• Supports auto publish image, and application policies for new devices. The list of the group image, and application policies from the
server should be obtained, when a device registers, re-registers, or changes the group.
NOTE: This feature is available for the Windows devices.
• Localization support for French, Italian, German, Simplied Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish in the Wyse Management Suite web
console.
• On-premise installer enhancements—The on-premise installer enhancements for the following actions:
• Option to use existing database that can be installed on a same machine or separate machine as EDM Server.
• Option to change default ports of all the services.
• Upgrade support from Edge Device Manager R15.
• Unied Wyse Device Agent—The Unied Wyse Device Agent is a simple and fast installer for windows devices. It is a single agent for
thin clients and the IoT devices.
• Groups page enhancement—The User count is removed and if you click the number of devices, it takes you to the devices page with
the selected group lter, and if you click the number of noncompliant devices, it takes you to the devices page with the selected group
and noncompliance lter.
• Supports BIOS update for the Windows devices—Windows Gateway and Embedded PC BIOS can be updated from the Wyse
Management Suite console.
• Performance—EDM R16 is tested with 120,000 devices.
NOTE
: Administrator must follow the document to congure this environment.
• Operating system and agent version lters—New lters for operating system and agent versions are added. When a device is
registered, the operating system and agent lter are added with the versions.
• MySQL for private cloud—EDM can be installed with MySQL by using the Custom Installation option.
NOTE
: The feature is tested for the version 5.6.37.
• Heartbeat and check-in-v2—You can congure heartbeat and check-in interval in the Portal Administration page. The agents fetches
the pending commands post heartbeat conguration. For private cloud, the heartbeat interval ranges from 5–6 hours, and for public
cloud ranges from 1–6 hours and the Check-in interval ranges from 8 to 24 hours. The Heartbeat interval is not aected by the device
status—oine or online.
• CA Validation for le repository—Private or public cloud of EDM allows CA validation conguration to download les from a remote
repository and it is available for all license types. Without this conguration, WDM le repository should have a CA signed certicate or
HTTP download must be enabled. It is not applicable for imaging jobs. CA validation aects les which are present only in the le
repository only. Downloading the le from WDA server APIs such as EULA, wallpaper, and logo is not aected. A global administrator
can turn the CA validation to ON/OFF for each repository from
Portal Administration > File Repository.
• EDM console page size and lter enhancement—You can congure the size from the server for 10 to 100. It provides an option to save
the lter and administrator can make it as default lter.
• Supports Apply to devices on check-in option—The Advanced application policies—for pro license has a drop-down Apply to devices
on check-in, when this option is selected, you can select the maximum number of retries. The Standard application policies for a pro
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