Administration and image upgrades
Image upgrades
The Intel Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) is a protocol that defines interaction between TCP/IP, DHCP and TFTP to enable a client to download a preboot environment from a server. PXE allows a client to boot from a server on a network prior to booting the embedded operating system or the operating system from the local flash module. PXE allows a network administrator to remotely wake up a thin client and perform various management tasks, including loading the operating system and other software onto the thin client from a server over the network. The PXE client is installed on the thin client and the PXE server component is part of the Altiris Deployment Solution suite.
✎Citrix ICA auto update does not function for the ICA client installed on the thin client; updates are implemented through the standard firmware upgrade process.
ThinState Capture and Deploy
The HP ThinState Capture tool is a very simple wizard based tool that can be used to capture an HP thin client XP Embedded image, which can then be deployed to another HP thin client of identical model and hardware. For more information about the ThinState Capture tool, see Chapter 4, in section “ThinState Capture.”
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