Administrator Guide

18. To create the job, click Preview and schedules are displayed on the next page.
19. You can check the status of the job by navigating to the Jobs page.
Creating and deploying advanced application policy to Wyse
Software Thin Clients
About this task
To deploy an advanced application policy to Wyse Software Thin Clients, do the following:
1. In the local repository, go to softwareTcApps, and copy the application to the folder.
2. Ensure that the application is registered by navigating to the Apps & Data tab and selecting Wyse Software thin client
under App Inventory.
NOTE: The App Inventory interface takes approximately two minutes to populate any recently added programs.
3. Click Apps & Data.
Apps & Data page is displayed.
4. Click Wyse Software Thin Clients under App Policies.
5. Click Add Advanced Policy. The Add Advanced App Policy page is displayed.
6. To create an application policy, do the following:
a. Enter the Policy Name.
b. From the drop-down list, select the Group.
c. Select the Sub Groups check box to apply the policy to sub groups.
d. From the drop-down list, select the Task.
e. From the drop-down list, select the OS Type.
f. Click Add app, and select one or more applications under Apps. For each application, you can select a pre and post
install script under PreInstall, PostInstall, and Install Parameters. If you want the system to reboot after the
application is successfully installed, select Reboot. Click Add app and repeat the step to add multiple applications.
NOTE:
To stop the application policy at first failure, select Enable app dependency. If this option is not selected,
failure of an application affects the policy implementation.
g. If you want to deploy this policy to specific operating system or platform, select OS Subtype Filter or Platform Filter.
h. Specify the number of minutes the message dialog box should be displayed on the client in the Timeout (1–999 min)
box. Timeout displays a message on the client which gives you time to save your work before the installation begins.
i. To allow delay in execution of the policy, select the Allow delay of policy execution check box. If this option is
selected, the following drop-down menus are enabled:
● From the Max Hours per Delay drop-down list, select the maximum hours (1–24 hours) you can delay the policy
execution.
● From the Max delays drop-down list, select the number of times (1–3) you can delay execution of the policy.
j. From the Apply Policy Automatically drop-down list, select any one of the following options:
● Do not apply automatically— This options does not apply any policy automatically to the devices.
● Apply the policy to new devices—This option automatically applies the policy to a registered device which belongs to
a selected group or is moved to a selected group.
● Apply the policy to devices on check in—This option is automatically applied to the device at check-in.
NOTE:
For Windows based devices, specify the silent installation parameters for .exe files to execute the application
in the silent mode. For example, VMware-Horizon-Client-4.6.1-6748947.exe /silent /install /norestart
k. Select the Skip write filter check check box to skip the write filter cycles. This option is applicable for Windows
Embedded Standard operating system devices.
7. Click Save. A message is displayed to allow administrators to schedule this policy on devices based on the group. Select Yes
to schedule the application policy for devices immediately or at a scheduled date and time on the App Policy Job page.
The application policy job can run:
a. Immediately—Server runs the job immediately.
Apps and data
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