Lenovo System Update Solution - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. Overview. . . . . . . . . . . 1
System Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Update Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Thin Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Managing the update process . . . . . . . . . 1
System Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
System Update and Update Retriever . . . . . 2
Using System Update and Update Retriever on
non-Lenovo systems . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5
Chapter 2. Installation . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installation requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
.Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Installation components . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
System Update languages . . . . . . . . . 8
Update Retriever languages. . . . . . . . 10
Installation considerations . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installation procedures and command-line
parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
11
A scenario of installing System Update and Update
Retriever in an enterprise environment . . . . .
13
Uninstall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Silent uninstall on Windows Vista or Windows
7 operating systems. . . . . . . . . . .
14
Chapter 3. Configurations. . . . . . . 15
Connection configurations . . . . . . . . . . 15
Configuring System Update . . . . . . . . . 15
Configuring System Update with the registry . 16
Configuring System Update with Active
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
29
Configuring System Update with the start.reg
file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
36
Chapter 4. Working with System
Update. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
39
About System Update . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Extras tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
System Update billboard . . . . . . . . . 39
Working with update packages . . . . . . . . 39
Downloading and installing updates . . . . 40
Working with license agreements . . . . . 41
Using System Update . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Scheduling the search for updates . . . . . 42
Viewing the download and installation
history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
43
Hiding and restoring hidden updates . . . . 43
Working with updates that force a reboot . . 43
Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 5. Working with Update
Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
45
About Update Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . 45
About update packages . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Update Retriever first time setup . . . . . . . 46
Using Update Retriever . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Manual searching for new updates . . . . . 47
Scheduling the search for updates . . . . . 48
Managing the repository . . . . . . . . . 49
Modifying settings . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Viewing history . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Hiding updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Exporting updates . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Chapter 6. Working with Thin
Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
55
About Thin Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Configuring Thin Installer . . . . . . . . . . 55
Using Thin Installer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Return error codes . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Windows Vista and Windows 7
considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . .
62
Web server configuration . . . . . . . . . 62
Best practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Uninstalling Thin Installer . . . . . . . . . . 62
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 update packages . 65
Creating repository folders . . . . . . . . 65
Configuring System Update on client
computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
65
Working with Update Retriever . . . . . . 65
Deploying the packages . . . . . . . . . 66
Scenario 3 - Deploying to non-Lenovo systems . . 66
Scenario 4 - Disabling the Web upgrade for System
Update. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
67
Scenario 5 - Installing specific update packages
with the MSDOS prompt . . . . . . . . . . .
67
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