HP ThinPro 7.0 - Administrator Guide

Choosing a remote management service
Regardless of the OS conguration, there are two dierent remote management services that you can use to
manage HP ThinPro-based thin clients:
● HP Device Manager (HPDM) is ideal for large environments with a variety of operating systems,
including a mixture of HP ThinPro-based and Windows®-based thin clients. HPDM provides a greater
variety of management options than HP Smart Client Services. For more information or to download
HPDM, go to http://www.hp.com/go/hpdm.
● HP Smart Client Services can manage HP ThinPro-based thin clients only and is optimized for use with
Smart Zero and a “zero management” scenario. For more information, see
HP Smart Client Services
on page 62. For information on how to download HP Smart Client Services, see Obtaining HP Smart
Client Services on page 62.
HP recommends evaluating both services and choosing the one that is best for your deployment.
Starting the thin client for the rst time
When you rst start a new HP ThinPro-based thin client, a setup program runs automatically. The Initial Setup
Wizard allows you to select a language, select the keyboard mapping, select a network connection, and
congure the date and time settings.
TIP: If you want to modify the conguration of a single thin client and then copy and deploy the
conguration to other thin clients, rst use the Initial Setup Wizard and the Control Panel to modify the
conguration, and then deploy the conguration using HPDM or HP ThinState. For more information, see GUI
overview on page 4 or Control Panel on page 43. For more information about HP ThinState, see HP
ThinState on page 53.
Switching between administrator mode and user mode
▲ Right-click the desktop or select Start, and then select Switch to Administrator from the menu.
For more information about the desktop, see Desktop on page 4.
For more information about Control Panel, see Taskbar on page 5 and Control Panel on page 43.
NOTE: The rst time you switch to administrator mode, you are prompted to set up an administrator
password. The administrator password must be entered every subsequent time you switch to administrator
mode. When Active Directory authentication is enabled, you can also switch to administrator mode by
entering the domain credentials of a person in the domain admin group.
When in administrator mode, the screen is surrounded by a red border.
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