Lenovo ThinkVantage Access Connections - Manual (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:
• Deploy Access Connections and Location Profiles on new client computers.
• Deploy Location Profiles and Client Policy on existing client computers running Access Connections.
• 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 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 Access Connections 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.
4. After restarting the system, Access Connection will run 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 unattended import, enable the setting Allow silent import of
this package even after installation of client while creating the .loa file.
2. Copy the distribution package (*.loa and *.sig) into the Access Connections installed directory of the
existing client computer.
3. After restarting the system, Access Connection runs automatically and detects the distribution package
and import the package. The import can be forced by using the following commands:
<path> \qctray.exe /importsilently
<path> \qctray.exe /killac
<path> \qctray.exe /startac
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