Administrator Guide

Application policy
Wyse Management Suite supports the following types of application inventories and application deployment policies:
• Conguring thin client application inventory
• Conguring 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 le 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.
Conguring thin client application inventory
To congure the thin client inventory, do the following:
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 les in the <repo-dir>\repository\thinClientApps folder.
Wyse Management Suite Repository sends metadata for all the les 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.
Apps and data
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