Administrator Guide
• Expanded Hierarchical Views - Expand the visual device management capabilities of your WDM server by using this feature to create
up to a total of 30 dierent organizational views of your devices.
• Automated Grouping - This feature is used to automatically place any new device that has been added to the system into the
predened groups that you want.
• Support for Multiple Databases - Multiple database supports when installing WDM for either an SQL 2008 or 2012 environment,
allows you to use your existing back-end infrastructure.
• Active Directory Integration - Allows you to easily import WDM user groups or individual users from your existing Active Directory
setup.
• Peer Assisted Deployment - Peer Assisted Deployment (PAD) is a mechanism that provides updates such as base images and add-ons
to thin client devices that are managed through the WDM server. This mechanism works best in an environment where the devices are
spread across multiple subnets.
The PAD feature is applicable to the following platforms:
• Windows 10 IoT Enterprise
• SUSE Linux
• Windows Embedded Standard 7 (WES7)
• Windows Embedded 8 Standard (WE8S)
• ThinLinux
• Prole Manager - PM enables you to deploy a predened conguration on a specied group of devices. These congurations are those
that you create using the Dell Wyse Conguration Manager (WCM) and save them in a specied repository. The congurations of the
Prole manager are unique for an Operating System, and you can apply only one conguration on a single group of devices at any given
time.
• Chargeback Accounting -
This feature is supported on Windows, Linux, and Wyse Thin OS (ThinOS) devices. It collects and stores remote session.
Support Information
Table 1. Support information
Supported Operating Systems for WDM Server
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1
• Windows Server 2012 Standard
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard
• Windows 7 Enterprise SP1(32-bit)
• Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 (64–bit)
Supported Operating Systems to Upgrade all WDM Components
• Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise
• Windows 2008 SP2 32-bit
Supported Databases
• Microsoft SQL Server Express 2014 - English
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 – English
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (32 bit)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition for High
Availability.
Supported Thin Client Devices Wyse ThinOS:
• Wyse 3010 thin client with ThinOS
• Wyse 3020 thin client with ThinOS
• Wyse 5010 thin client with ThinOS
8 Introduction