HP ThinPro 6.2 - Administrator Guide

NOTE: The physical location where the Automatic Update les are stored is as follows:
C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\HP Smart Client Service\auto-update
Creating an Automatic Update prole
Automatic Update uses proles to deploy a conguration to thin clients. By default, when you create a prole
using Prole Editor (see Prole Editor on page 66), the tool lets you save it to the following folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\HP Smart Client Service\auto-update
\PersistentProfile\
You can also export an existing prole from a thin client using HP ThinState and copy the prole to this
location.
When searching for updates, HP ThinPro looks for this folder and applies the prole saved there. This ensures
that all thin clients use the same conguration.
MAC-address-specic proles
Automatic Update proles can be created for a single MAC address. This can be useful when some thin clients
need a dierent conguration.
Proles for a single MAC address must be stored on the Automatic Update server, in the following folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\HP Smart Client Service\auto-update
\PersistentProfile\MAC\
When searching for updates, HP ThinPro looks for the generic prole rst, and then a MAC-address-based
prole. These proles are merged and installed together on the thin client. The MAC-address-based prole
takes precedence; that is, if the same registry key has a dierent value in both les, the value in the MAC-
address-based prole is used.
This ensures that a shared conguration can be provided to all thin clients, but a specic customization can be
added, if necessary.
This section describes how to create an Automatic Update prole for a single MAC address.
1. Obtain the MAC address of the thin client using the system info. For example, the following steps use the
MAC address 00fcab8522ac.
2. Use Prole Editor to create or modify a client prole (see Prole Editor on page 66) until you are ready
to save the client prole.
3. In Prole Editor, select the Finish link in the left-hand pane to access the Current prole pane.
4. Select Save prole as to save the client prole as the following:
C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\HP Smart Client Service\auto-update
\PersistentProfile\MAC\00fcab8522ac.xml
5. Select the Finish button in the Current prole pane to exit Prole Editor.
6. Restart the thin client that uses the specied MAC address to initiate the Automatic Update process.
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