Lenovo ThinkServer TD100 Kurzanleitung

EasyUpdate Solution

Deployment Guide

Date: September 10, 2008

AThinkServer and ThinkVantage Technology publication

First Edition (September 2008)

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Contents

Preface ...............v

Chapter 1. Overview .........1

EasyUpdate...............1

Update Retriever .............1

Managing the update process.........1

EasyUpdate..............2

EasyUpdate and Update Retriever ......2

Non-Lenovo ..............4

Chapter 2. Installation.........5

Installation requirements ..........5

.Net ................6

Installation components...........6

EasyUpdate languages ..........6

Update Retriever languages ........7

Installation considerations ..........7

EasyUpdate standard installation procedures and

command-line parameters .........8

Installing EasyUpdate or Update Retriever ....10

Uninstall ...............10

Chapter 3. Configurations ......13

Connection configurations .........13

Configuring EasyUpdate ..........14

Configuring EasyUpdate with the registry ...14

Configuring EasyUpdate with Active Directory 27

Configuring EasyUpdate with the start.reg file .34

Chapter 4. Working with EasyUpdate 39

About EasyUpdate ............39

Extras tab ..............39

Working with update packages ........39

Downloading and installing updates .....40

Using EasyUpdate ............41

Scheduling the search for updates ......42

Keyboard shortcuts ...........43

Chapter 5. Working with Update

Retriever ..............45

About Update Retriever ..........45

Update Retriever setup ..........45

Using Update Retriever ..........46

Search for updates with Update Retriever ...46

Manual check for new updates .......46

Modify settings ............46

Configuring automatic check for new updates ..47

Automatic search and download of new updates 47

Viewing the download history .......47

Show updates in arepository .......47

Hiding updates ............47

Importing updates ...........48

Scheduling updates...........48

Creating and modifying an update package ..49

Keyboard shortcuts ...........52

Chapter 6. Working with

Mini-EasyUpdate ..........53

About Mini-EasyUpdate ..........53

Downloading Mini-EasyUpdate .......53

System requirements ..........53

.Net ................54

Using Mini-EasyUpdate ..........55

Log file ...............57

Return codes .............58

Keyboard shortcuts ...........58

Configuring Mini-EasyUpdate ........58

Configuring Mini-EasyUpdate with XML ...58

Uninstall ...............61

Appendix A. Command line parameters 63

Automatic search ............63

Command line scripts ...........63

Search modes..............69

Notification parameters ..........69

Map Drive utility ............72

Command line interface .........72

Using the MapDrv utility.........73

Appendix B. Notices .........75

Trademarks ..............76

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iv EasyUpdate Solution Deployment Guide

Preface

This deployment guide is intended for IT administrators or those who are

responsible for deploying updates on computers in their organizations. The

programs documented in this deployment guide are ThinkServer™EasyUpdate,

ThinkVantage®Update Retriever, and ThinkServer Mini-EasyUpdate. EasyUpdate

is asoftware program that you can use to help keep your system up-to-date.

Update Retriever is an administrative program that you can use to customize the

update process for your enterprise. Mini-EasyUpdate is asmaller version of

EasyUpdate, which is used as astandalone installation utility that runs without an

installation process.

This guide provides information required for installing EasyUpdate on one or

more computers, provided that licenses for the software are available for each

client computer. The EasyUpdate application provides application help, which

administrators and end users can consult for information about using the

application. Information presented in this guide supports ThinkServer and

ThinkVantage programs and does not support Lenovo®3000 technology.

ThinkServer and ThinkVantage Technologies and the deployment guides that

accompany them are developed for IT professionals and the unique challenges that

they encounter. If you have suggestions or comments, communicate with your

Lenovo authorized representative.

To learn more about the technologies that can help you lower the total cost of

ownership and to check for periodic updates to this guide, visit the Lenovo Web

site:

http://www.lenovo.com

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vi EasyUpdate Solution Deployment Guide

Chapter 1. Overview

The programs documented in this deployment guide are EasyUpdate and Update

Retriever. This deployment guide explains the update process, defines each

program, and how each program can be configured to fit your needs. In this

deployment guide, you also will find installation procedures, application

configurations, and best practices on how to use these programs in different

environments. For more information about Mini-EasyUpdate, go to Chapter 6,

“Working with Mini-EasyUpdate,” on page 53.

EasyUpdate

EasyUpdate is asoftware program that helps you keep the software on your

system up-to-date. Update packages are stored on Lenovo servers and can be

downloaded from the Lenovo Help Center Web site. Update packages can be

applications, device drivers, BIOS flashes, and software updates. When EasyUpdate

connects to the Lenovo Help Center Web site, EasyUpdate automatically recognizes

the machine type of your system, model number, and other system information to

determine whether your system needs the available updates. EasyUpdate will

display apick list of update packages where you can select update packages to

download and install. EasyUpdate can be configured to install packages either

manually or automatically. EasyUpdate also provides amethod to defer the

installation of update packages. EasyUpdate can be configured to search and

download update packages from any or any combination of the following

locations:

vLenovo Help Center Web site

vRepository folder on alocal system

vRepository folder on anetwork share

Update Retriever

Update Retriever is asoftware program that enables you to search for and

download updates from the Lenovo Help Center Web site to anetwork shared

folder. You can configure EasyUpdate to search for update packages from a

network shared folder instead of searching the Lenovo Help Center Web site.

Update Retriever can help you with the following:

vDownloading updates for specific Lenovo systems, languages, and operating

systems.

vDownloading update packages for more than one machine type.

vImporting update packages.

Update Retriever can be run on Think systems, Lenovo systems, and OEM

systems.

Managing the update process

The update process is amethod to obtain, configure, and install update packages.

To complete the update process, use the following programs:

v“EasyUpdate” on page 2-If you use EasyUpdate only, EasyUpdate will connect

to the Lenovo Help Center Web site through an Internet connection.

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v“EasyUpdate and Update Retriever” -If you use Update Retriever and

EasyUpdate, Update Retriever enables you to search the Lenovo Help Center

Web site for update packages, and then download those packages to your

network.

v“EasyUpdate and Update Retriever with customized update packages” on page

4-If you use Update Retriever and EasyUpdate, you can create or edit update

packages with Update Retriever to customize the update content relevant to

your enterprise.

EasyUpdate

The following illustration shows the communication path of update packages from

the Lenovo Help Center to aclient system when using only EasyUpdate:

EasyUpdate and Update Retriever

For multiple systems, you can use Update Retriever on an administrative system to

download packages from the Lenovo Help Center to your network. EasyUpdate

can be configured to obtain updates from arepository folder. Your repository

folder provides the storage for update packages. This allows greater control of the

updates that are available over your network. The following illustration provides

the communication path of update packages from the Lenovo Help Center to your

administrative system using Update Retriever:

Figure 1. Update process using EasyUpdate only

Figure 2. Using Update Retriever to control the update process

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The following illustration provides the communication path of update packages

from an administrator system with Update Retriever to client systems with

EasyUpdate:

For more information on configuring repository locations for package storage, see

Chapter 3, “Configurations,” on page 13.

Deploying repository folders to client systems

Instead of using anetwork share on aLAN, you can use alocal system such as the

administrator system for package storage. Once you have created arepository

folder, you can then push the folder to client systems. This method will enable you

to use Update Retriever on adesignated machine to download updates to a

repository folder and then push out the folder containing the update packages to

client systems. When the client systems run EasyUpdate, EasyUpdate will obtain

updates directly from the folder that you deployed. The following illustration

provides the communication path of update packages from an administrative

system to client systems:

Figure 3. Using Update Retriever on alocal network

Figure 4. Pushing out the repository folder to client systems

Chapter 1. Overview 3

EasyUpdate and Update Retriever with customized update

packages

For enterprises that choose to create custom update packages for client systems,

use EasyUpdate and Update Retriever to manage the update process. As an

administrator, you can use Update Retriever to download selected update packages

from the Lenovo Help Center to anetwork share repository folder. You can then

use Update Retriever to edit an existing package or create anew package in the

repository folder. Update Retriever uses an XML Descriptor file to define when an

update package is relevant and how to install the update package. For example,

you can create an XML Descriptor file that enables aspecific update to be

downloaded and installed on aclient system depending on the version of the

software already installed or existing hardware devices found on the system. After

using Update Retriever to customize update packages to fit the needs of your

enterprise, import the update packages into the network share repository folder

with Update Retriever.

On client systems, use EasyUpdate to search the network share repository folder

for update packages. EasyUpdate can then download and install relevant packages

from the network share repository folder to client systems. The following

illustration shows the relationship between the Lenovo Help Center, EasyUpdate,

and Update Retriever when using Update Retriever to manage the update process:

Non-Lenovo

By design, EasyUpdate and Update Retriever can be used with non-Lenovo

systems. Non-Lenovo systems are not configured to utilize the Lenovo Help Center

Web site to download and install packages. If you are using anon-Lenovo system

with EasyUpdate, use Update Retriever to download update packages to your

network share repository or local system repository and then use EasyUpdate to

search for packages on your network.

Figure 5. Update process for client systems managed by administrators using Update

Retriever

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