How to update from Dell Wyse Enhanced Windows Embedded Standard 7 P (WES7P) to Dell Wyse Windows 10 IoT Enterprise This white paper provides instructions for updating your Dell Wyse thin clients that include Windows 10 IoT Enterprise license, but running WES7P OS.
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1 Background/Purpose Background In July 2015, Microsoft Corporation launched Windows 10 for PCs and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise (WIE10) for embedded systems, such as the Dell Wyse thin clients. You can continue to use your WES7 device with the existing OS (WES7P) until you want to upgrade to Win 10 IoT without any issues. You can upgrade to Win 10 with an appropriate Win 10 License and/or appropriate upgrade rights. This document explains the steps that you need to follow to upgrade the device.
Figure 1 1.4 Logical representation of WES7P to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise upgrade scenario Limitations Only applies to devices that already include Windows 10 IoT Enterprise license. After you update to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, you cannot downgrade the devices again to WES7P. 1.5 BIOS and TPM dependencies You need to update BIOS to the latest available version based on the supported platforms. For more information on BIOS updates, see platform-specific release notes.
2 Instructions to update WES7P to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise The following are the different types of supported client management suites for conversion/update from WES7P to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise: 2.1 Using Wyse Device Manager (WDM) To update WES7P OS to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise using WDM, do the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Go to the Dell support website, and download the appropriate Dell official update image package. After the download is complete, extract the contents to a local storage location.
Note: For more details on SCCM configuration procedures, refer to the SCCM Administrator’s guide. 2.3 Using Dell Wyse USB Imaging Tool To update WES7P OS to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise using USB Imaging Tool, do the following: 1. USB imaging tool allows you to image the thin client devices with update capable WES7P image to Windows 10 IoT Enterprise manually. 2. Copy the downloaded and extracted Windows 10 IoT Enterprise update image package to a predefined folder on the imaging ready USB pen drive. 3.
