Administrator Guide

• Support for Multiple Databases - Multiple database support when installing VXC-M for either an SQL 2005 or 2008 environment,
allows you to use your existing back-end infrastructure.
• Active Directory Integration - Allows you to easily import VXC-M user groups or individual users from your existing Active Directory
setup.
• Autogenic Imaging - Allows you to image the device with the image residing on ash or hard drive of the device.
Key Features of WDM Enterprise Edition
Additional WDM Enterprise Edition features include:
• Secure Communication between a WDM Server, Repository, and a Device - Provides secure communications between client and
web server by encrypting trac to and from the client and server and by issuing certicates. Certicates must be signed by an
authority which certies that the certicate holder is the entity it claims to be. Organizations may choose to be their own certicate
authority for internal web server access.
• Merlin Imaging System - Provides HTTP, HTTPS and CIFS based imaging, as well as provides better performance when deploying
large images.
• Added Scalability with Remote Repositories - Scale your solution by adding remote repositories to your infrastructure. This
functionality allows to use the remote server locations for storing terminal rmware and software. This reduces the amount of network
trac over a wide-area network (WAN) because the bulk of the update trac (the actual image itself) is transferred only once over
the WAN to the Remote Repository. Devices can retrieve the update software from the remote server rather than centralized server.
This also increase the speed of the overall update process. WDM still allows you, however, to perform all device management from a
central server (for example, from your data center).
• Distributed Architecture - This feature allows you to place the WDM components on one or more computers located on your network.
• Default Device Conguration - This feature allows you to congure default software and device congurations for a group of devices.
This functionality ensures that the device conforms to your congurations from a software and device conguration perspective. If
there is any deviation from default congurations, WDM will revert the device back to your specied congurations. This feature
automates the recovery of failed devices, the re-purposing of existing devices, and the addition of new devices within an existing
infrastructure.
• Expanded Hierarchical Views - Expand the visual device management capabilities of your WDM server by using this feature to create
up to a total of 30 dierent organizational views of your devices.
• Automated Grouping - This feature is used to automatically place any new device that has been added to the system into the pre-
dened groups that you want.
• Support for Multiple Databases - Multiple database support when installing WDM for either an SQL 2008 or 2012 environment, allows
you to use your existing back-end infrastructure.
• Active Directory Integration - Allows you to easily import WDM user groups or individual users from your existing Active Directory
setup.
• Peer Assisted Deployment - Peer Assisted Deployment (PAD) is a mechanism that provides updates such as base images and add-ons
to thin client devices that are managed through the WDM server. This mechanism works best in an environment where the devices are
spread across multiple subnets.
The PAD feature is applicable to the following platforms:
• Windows Embedded Standard
• Windows 10 IoT Enterprise
• SUSE Linux
• Windows Embedded Standard 7 (WES7)
• Windows Embedded 8 Standard (WE8S)
• ThinLinux
• Prole Manager - PM enables you to deploy a predened conguration on a specied group of devices. These congurations are those
that you create using the Dell Wyse Conguration Manager (WCM) and save them in a specied repository. The congurations of
Prole manager are unique for an Operating System and you can apply only one conguration on a single group of devices at any given
time.
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Introduction