Chapter 7. best practices, Scenario 1 - managing the update process, Step 1 - installing the programs – Lenovo System Update Solution (Deployment Guide) User Manual
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Chapter 7. Best practices
This chapter provides step-oriented scenarios to help you understand the update
process. The scenarios provided in this chapter are:
“Scenario 1 - Managing the update process”
“Scenario 2 - Deploying specific packages” on page 65
“Scenario 3 - Deploy onto non-Lenovo systems” on page 66
“Scenario 4 - Disabling the Web upgrade for System Update” on page 67
“Scenario 5 - Installing specific packages with the MSDOS Command Prompt” on
page 67
“Scenario 6 - Deploying packages to client system repositories” on page 68
“Scenario 7 - Working with firewalls and the Scheduler function” on page 68
“Scenario 8 - Working with Thin Installer” on page 69
Scenario 1 - Managing the update process
The following steps provide the best practices for managing the update process
using System Update and Update Retriever. For conceptual information about the
update process, see “Managing the update process” on page 1.
Step 1 - Installing the programs
Complete the following steps to install System Update and Update Retriever:
1.
Create a new folder on the server to be used as the repository.
2.
Share the new repository folder using the UNC path. The UNC path provides
connectivity to all computers that have been mapped to the repository. The
format for a UNC path is:
\\server\share
For example: \\Server_X\TVSU_repository\
3.
Set the access permissions of the new repository folder to read only access for
end users.
4.
Download Update Retriever to the administrator computer. Update Retriever
can be downloaded from the following Lenovo Web site:
5.
Install Update Retriever silently by entering the following command for each
program at the command prompt:
setup.exe -s -a /s /v" /qn" /L1033
L1033 is the language code for English. Language codes used with silent scripts
must coincide with the language set in the regional settings of the applicable
system. For information about using other language codes, see “System Update
languages” on page 6. In addition, when you launch Update Retriever, you
must be logged on as a user who belongs to a local administrator group.
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