Considerations For Deploying Access Connections; Requirements And Specifications For Deployment - Lenovo ThinkPad G40 Deployment Manual

v Automatic switching of location profiles
v Create location profiles for remote deployment administrator only

Considerations for deploying Access Connections

Collecting information about the various places where users might attempt to
connect and the kinds of connections available in those locations will help you
develop pre-configured profiles that users can import and use right away. By
capturing working configurations in profiles which can be deployed with the
initial image, support calls can be reduced and users can immediately take
advantage of their network connections without intervention.
The Administrator Feature Enabler tool available with version 4.0 or later
simplifies the task of deploying location profiles, global settings, and control
policies to individuals or groups of individuals running Access Connections in a
corporate environment. The deployment of profiles and settings can be
accomplished during the initial system deployment as part of the preload image or
after systems are in the field using standard remote deployment methods.

Requirements and specifications for deployment

To view the current list of supported ThinkPad
WAN drivers, see the following Web site:
http://www.lenovo.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=
lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-4ZLNJB
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connection attempt is successful, a new wireless location profile will be created
using the detected wireless network name and default settings. You can also
manually create a location profile for a detected wireless network if you know
the appropriate settings.
If a network associated with your currently applied location profile becomes
unavailable, Access Connection can search for available networks and
automatically switch to a matching location profile. You can automatically switch
between wireless location profiles, and Ethernet location profiles. You can
establish a wireless priority list that allows you to define which wireless location
profile will be made active when your computer is in range of multiple wireless
networks, or when more than one location profile uses the same wireless
network name.
An Access Connections administrator can define location profiles for export to
the client computers.
Access Connections provides an icon in the system tray which allows you to
launch the application, view the status of the current location profile, and switch
between profiles.
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