HP Easy Shell - Administrator Guide

Getting started1

HP Easy Shell allows you to congure connections, websites, and applications for kiosk-style deployments

of HP thin clients based on Windows

operating systems. You can also customize the kiosk interface that

is presented to standard users and enable or disable user access to specic Control Panel settings. The

congured environment can be deployed to multiple thin clients using HP Device Manager (HPDM).

NOTE: Enabling user access to Control Panel settings might also give the user access to File Explorer.

Many thin client deployments need to provide either a single- or limited-purpose environment to users, such

as an environment for web browsing or remote desktop access. HP Easy Shell simplies this type of thin client

deployment by hiding the standard Windows interface, restricting users to certain applications and functions,

and locking down the system against user modication.

NOTE: This guide applies to HP Easy Shell 3.5 or newer (see Obtaining and opening HP Easy Shell on page

2 for information about obtaining the latest version).

Supported operating systems, connection types, and applications

The following table describes the operating systems, connection types, and applications supported by HP

Easy Shell.

Table 1-1

HP Easy Shell Compatability

Item Description

Operating systems Windows 10 IoT Enterprise

Windows Embedded 8.1 Industry Pro

Windows Embedded 8 Standard

Windows Embedded Standard 7

Connection types Web browser*

Citrix® ICA**, StoreFront**, Web Interface**

Microsoft

RDP

VMware® Horizon View™ (PCoIP, RDP)

Applications All traditional desktop applications that are supported by the

operating systems listed above should work with HP Easy Shell.

HP Easy Shell does not support Windows Store apps.

* HP Easy Shell features a built-in kiosk-style web browser with limited functionality that is suitable for

standard web browsing. Alternatively, a web browser connection can be congured to use the full Internet

Explorer browser, if additional functionality is needed.

** Citrix® ICA

, StoreFront

™

, and Web Interface connections are created using dierent methods. See Creating

an HP Easy Shell conguration on page 4 for information on where to create each Citrix connection type.

Getting started