Wyse automated installs

[Nathalie V. Hernandez]

I would like to know what tools are there available to automate user,
software, and printer installations in Wyse with XPe. The clients
were first imaged (using Norton Ghost) and ther users and printers
have been setup locally in the Wyse machines, which is a very time
consuming task. There must be a better way.

What I want to is create the users in R2, have a login batch file to
setup the users, printers, shares, and load DST (and other app)
updates for all the Wyse thin clients. Is this possible with Wyse XPe
using Windows 2003R2?

Also, I wanted to take this opportunity to ask you fine folks if you
have had the problem after re-imagine a Wyse machine of having the
HAgent be shutoff? After re-imagine a client, we find that we have to
into services and start the HAgent manually when we first login.
Another issue we have found is while using ViewSonic FlatPanel
monitors, we have times when the graphic display is plagued with a
wiggly image. Have any of you had this happen?

Thanks

 

[KM]

Nathalie,

For some software installation you can use lots of tools available in XPe repositories and XP Resource Kits from printUI to scripts
and etc. However, whether you can run those tools on the image and whether a script execution would succeed is totally dependent on
what Wyse has implemented and put in the image in terms of components and etc.

Perhaps Wyse would have better answers to your question. Did you try contacting them?

 

[Guest]

KM,
I did a beautiful thing. I just made a bat file on one machine that mapped
the shared drives and printers to the appropriate server, then had the server
load the drivers, and copied the image to the other machines. Also, I
managed to make an image that consistantly has the HAgent running
automatically at startup, so that's that. Now what I'm missing is the users,
which is more complicated because each group has different rights, of course.
For some reason things do not work out right unless you log in as the
administrator first and then as the non-administrators. That way the script
completes and all is well with world. So I'm still stuck with the need to
configure each node.

I'm taking your advise and dealing with Wyse. Sometimes I don't think they
even know what they are doing. Shhhh....don't tell them I said so.

Thanks so much for your reply.