Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E50 (English) Access Connections Profile Deployment guide - Page 29

Chapter 4. Deploying Access Connections After creating the location profiles required for client users, you can also manage and deploy new, updated, or revised location profiles to client computers. The following examples describe deployment scenarios used in deploying Access Connections: v Deploy Access Connections and Location Profiles on new client computers. v Deploy Location Profiles and Client Policy on existing client computers running Access Connections. v Upgrade existing Access Connections and migrate Location Profiles on existing client computers. Deploy on new computers To deploy Access Connections location profiles on new computers that do not have Access Connections installed, complete the following steps: 1. Create an Access Connections distribution package (*.loa and *.sig) with the Location Profiles that contain the desired user access policy and client configuration policy as described in Chapter 3, "Working with the Administrator Feature," on page 7. For unattended import, enable the setting Allow silent import of this package even after installation of client while creating the .loa file. 2. Create an integrated package as described inAppendix B, "Integrated Packaging," on page 31 with Access Connections, Wireless LAN driver/application, Hotkey Fn+F5 utility, and Power Management driver. 3. Include the distribution package .loa and .sig files in the CONWIZ folder of the integrated package. You can choose not to include the distribution package in the integrated package and instead after the installation of the integrated package or Access Connections, copy them into the Access Connections installed directory (default installed directory is C:\Program Files\ThinkPad\ConnectUtilities). 4. Install the integrated package as desired for attended or unattended mode, as described in Appendix B, "Integrated Packaging," on page 31. 5. After restarting the system, Access Connection is runs automatically, detect and import the distribution package silently. If the silent import option was not selected, a user can select import from the manage profiles window and manually import the package by providing the same passphrase at the prompt that was used to create the package by administrator. Deploy on existing client computers To deploy Access Connections location profiles on existing computers that have Access Connections already installed and running, complete the following steps: 1. Create an Access Connections distribution package (*.loa and *.sig) with the location profiles that contain the desired user access policy and client configuration policy as described in Chapter 3, "Working with the Administrator Feature," on page 7 earlier. If only the client configuration policy needs to be modified, you can create a distribution package without exporting any profiles but only include the modified client configuration policy. For © Lenovo 2008. Portions © IBM Corp. 2005. 21