Lenovo System Update Solution (Deployment Guide) - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Overview . . . . . . . . . 1
System Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Update Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Managing the update process . . . . . . . . . 1
System Update . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
System Update and Update Retriever . . . . . 2
Non-Lenovo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 2. Installation . . . . . . . . . 5
Installation requirements . . . . . . . . . . 5
.Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Installation components. . . . . . . . . . . 6
System Update languages . . . . . . . . . 6
Update Retriever languages . . . . . . . . 7
Installation considerations . . . . . . . . . . 7
System Update standard installation procedures
and command-line parameters .
. . . . . . 8
Installing System Update or Update Retriever . . . 10
Uninstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Silent uninstall for Windows Vista . . . . . . 11
Chapter 3. Configurations . . . . . . 13
Connection configurations . . . . . . . . . 13
Configuring System Update . . . . . . . . . 14
Configuring System Update with the registry . . 14
Configuring System Update with Active
Directory .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Configuring System Update with start.reg . . . 35
Chapter 4. Working with System
Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
About System Update . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Extras tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
System Update billboard . . . . . . . . . 39
Working with update packages . . . . . . . . 40
Downloading and installing updates . . . . . 40
Using System Update . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Scheduling the search for updates . . . . . . 42
Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 5. Working with Update
Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
About Update Retriever . . . . . . . . . . 45
Update Retriever setup . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using Update Retriever . . . . . . . . . . 46
Search for updates with Update Retriever . . . 46
Manual check for new updates . . . . . . . 46
Modify settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Configuring automatic check for new updates . . 47
Automatic search and download of new updates 47
Viewing the download history .
. . . . . . 47
Show updates in a repository . . . . . . . 48
Hiding updates . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Importing updates . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Scheduling updates. . . . . . . . . . . 49
Creating and modifying an update package . . 49
Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Chapter 6. Working with Thin Installer 53
About Thin Installer . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Downloading Thin Installer . . . . . . . . . 53
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . 53
.Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using Thin Installer . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Log file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Windows Vista considerations . . . . . . . 57
Return codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Configuring Thin Installer . . . . . . . . . 58
Configuring Thin Installer with XML . . . . . 58
Uninstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Chapter 7. Best practices . . . . . . . 63
Scenario 1 - Managing the update process . . . . 63
Step 1 - Installing the programs . . . . . . 63
Step 2 - Customizing the programs . . . . . 64
Step 3 - Working with the programs . . . . . 64
Scenario 2 - Deploying specific packages . . . . 65
Creating repository folders . . . . . . . . 65
Configuring System Update on client systems . . 65
Working with Update Retriever. . . . . . . 65
Deploying the packages . . . . . . . . . 66
Scenario 3 - Deploy onto non-Lenovo systems . . . 66
Scenario 4 - Disabling the Web upgrade for System
Update .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Scenario 5 - Installing specific packages with the
MSDOS Command Prompt .
. . . . . . . . 67
Scenario 6 - Deploying packages to client system
repositories
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Step 1 - Administrator system setup . . . . . 68
Step 2 - Configuring System Update on client
systems.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Scenario 7 - Working with firewalls and the
Scheduler function .
. . . . . . . . . . . 68
Scenario 8 - Working with Thin Installer . . . . . 69
Deploying the packages using USB or CD . . . 69
Deploying the packages using network share
repository .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Deploying the packages using a system
management tool
. . . . . . . . . . . 69
Integrating Thin Installer with ImageUltra
Builder (IUB) .
. . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Integrating Thin Installer with a Sysprep Image 70
Appendix A. Command line parameters 71
Automatic search . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Command line scripts . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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