HP Easy Shell - Administrator Guide

Deployment3
This chapter discusses the various methods that can deploy HP Easy Shell to multiple thin clients. The best
method depends on your use case and environment.
NOTE: All of the following methods discuss using HPDM for deployment. For more specics on HPDM, see
the HP Device Manager Administrator Guide.
Deploying a
precongured thin client image
You can deploy HP Easy Shell by conguring it on a thin client image that will be captured and deployed to
other thin clients. The most eicient way to deploy an image to multiple thin clients is via HPDM, which has
preset templates for capturing and deploying an image.
Deploying HP Easy Shell to existing thin client images
Follow the instructions outlined here to deploy HP Easy Shell to existing thin client images.
1. Congure HP Easy Shell on a single system, and then export the conguration as a registry le, as
described in Exporting and deploying an HP Easy Shell conguration on page 14.
2. Copy the registry le to the system running the HPDM Console.
3. Use the HP FTP Software Component Browser to locate the HP Easy Shell package on the HP FTP site,
and then generate a _File and Registry template for the package.
4. Add a subtask to the template and import the registry le containing the exported conguration.
5. Deploy the template to the target thin clients.
Exporting and deploying an HP Easy Shell
conguration
This section outlines how to export an HP Easy Shell conguration to a registry le.
You can export an HP Easy Shell conguration as a Windows registry le so that it can easily be deployed to
other thin clients.
NOTE: Be sure that HP Easy Shell is being deployed simultaneously or is already installed on each thin
client.
1. Click the Export button in the lower-left corner of the HP Easy Shell Conguration utility.
2. Select the destination folder, and then enter a name for the conguration.
3. Click Save.
NOTE: An HP Easy Shell conguration can also be exported to a registry le by entering the following in an
administrator command prompt (be sure to include the double quotes around the le path if it contains
spaces):
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