Administrator Guide

Table Of Contents
Application policy
Wyse Management Suite supports the following types of application inventories and application deployment policies:
Configuring thin client application inventory
Configuring Wyse Software thin client application inventory
Creating and deploying standard application policy to thin clients
Creating and deploying advanced application policy to thin clients
Creating and deploying standard application policy to Wyse Software Thin Clients
Creating and deploying advanced application policy to Wyse Software Thin Clients
Important notes for Windows based devices:
Supports installation for windows based applications with extension .msi, .exe, .msu, .msp.
Application with any other extension is downloaded to %sytemdrive%\wyse\WDA" Ex: "C:\wyse\WDA
For deploying .exe applications by using Wyse Management Suite, follow the silent installation method. You must enter
the appropriate silent parameters if required. For example, VMware-Horizon-Client-4.6.1-6748947.exe /silent /install /
norestart
Supports script deployments with file extensions .bat, .cmd, .ps1, .vbs.
Script with any other extension is downloaded to %sytemdrive%\wyse\WDA" Ex: "C:\wyse\WDA.
Any script which is pushed by using Wyse Management Suite should be non-interactive which means there is no user
interaction required during the installation.
In advanced application policy if there is a script/exe which returns value other than 0 then it is considered as a failure.
In advanced application policy if pre-install fails then application installation is not continued.
Any exe/scripts pushed by using standard application is reported as success with error code being updated in job status.
For applications with extension msi/msu/msp standard error codes is reported. If application returns REBOOT_REQUIRED
then device goes through one extra reboot.
Important notes for Linux devices:
Supports installation for Linux based applications with extension .bin, .deb for ThinLinux 2.0 and .rpm for Thin Linux 1.0.
Supports script deployments for ThinLinux devices with extensions .sh.
In standard or advanced application policy if there is a script/deb/rpm which returns value other than 0 then it is considered
as a failure.
In advanced application policy if pre-install fails then app installation is not continued.
Configuring thin client application inventory
About this task
To configure the thin client inventory, do the following:
Steps
1. Click the Apps and Data tab.
2. In the left pane, go to App Inventory > Thin Client.
Application details are displayed in the Thin Client Inventory window.
3. To add an application to the inventory, place the thin client application files in the <repo-
dir>\repository\thinClientApps folder.
Wyse Management Suite Repository sends metadata for all the files to the Wyse Management Suite server periodically.
4. To edit the application, do the following:
a. Select the uploaded application from the list.
b. Click Edit App.
The Edit Application window is displayed.
c. Enter the note.
d. Click Save.
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Apps and data