Lenovo ThinkServer RS110 - Manual (Page 3)

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 a repository . . . . . . . 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
© Copyright Lenovo 2008 iii