HP Easy Shell - Administrator Guide

Table of contents
1 Getting started.......................................................................................................................................................................1
Supported operating systems, connection types, and applications ................................................................................1
Obtaining and opening HP Easy Shell................................................................................................................................ 2
Opening HP Easy Shell within Windows ....................................................................................................................2
Opening HP Easy Shell Conguration from outside HP Easy Shell ...........................................................................2
Opening the Conguration from within HP Easy Shell..............................................................................................2
Using HP Easy Shell ...........................................................................................................................................................2
2 Conguration .........................................................................................................................................................................4
Creating an HP Easy Shell conguration ...........................................................................................................................4
Customizing the user interface .........................................................................................................................................4
Display settings .................................................................................................................................................................7
Adding an application ........................................................................................................................................................7
Adding a Citrix ICA, RDP, or VMware connection................................................................................................................8
Adding a Citrix ICA, RDP, or VMware connection........................................................................................................8
Assigning a failover connection to a prole ..............................................................................................................8
Common connection settings....................................................................................................................................9
RDP le customization...............................................................................................................................................9
Adding custom values........................................................................................................................................9
Using a custom RDP le .....................................................................................................................................9
Adding a Citrix StoreFront connection.............................................................................................................................10
Adding an internet, network, or Citrix Web Interface site...............................................................................................11
Adding a custom Easy Shell prole .................................................................................................................................12
3 Deployment..........................................................................................................................................................................14
Deploying a precongured thin client image ..................................................................................................................14
Deploying HP Easy Shell to existing thin client images ..................................................................................................14
Exporting and deploying an HP Easy Shell conguration ...............................................................................................14
4 Tips and best practices ........................................................................................................................................................16
Appendix A Customizing through the registry .......................................................................................................................17
Display user name ...........................................................................................................................................................17
Customizing title category names...................................................................................................................................17
Delay Easy Shell start up .................................................................................................................................................17
Virtual keyboard style......................................................................................................................................................17
Delay browser embed......................................................................................................................................................18
Creating custom connection error messages..................................................................................................................18
Internet Explorer registry restrictions ............................................................................................................................18
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