Using The Administrator Feature; Creating A Distribution Package - Lenovo ThinkPad G40 Deployment Manual

4. Click Enable Administrator Feature.
5. Click Exit to close the Enabler.
6. Start Access Connections.

Using the Administrator feature

After you have enabled the administrator feature, you can manage location profiles
for users by creating or editing distribution packages. Distribution packages have
the file extension of .loa and contains the metadata for location profiles used by
Access Connections. The following steps provide the ideal scenario for using the
administrator feature of Access Connections:
1. Using Access Connections, create location profiles. Consider the following
2. Create or edit a distribution package with the Administrator Profile
3. Deploy the distribution package to client systems.

Creating a distribution package

Complete the following steps to create a distribution package:
1. Click Profile Distribution and then click Create Distribution Package.
Figure 3. Create Distribution Package
2. Select the location profiles that you want to deploy. If a profile that is selected
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scenarios as you create the location profiles:
v Office and building connections
v Home connections
v Branch-office connections
v Connections while traveling and hot-spot connections
For instructions on how to create location profiles, or how to use Access
Connections, see the Access Connections User's Guide located at the following
Lenovo Web site:
http://www.lenovo.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=
lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-63042
Deployment feature.
contains a wireless profile with encryption enabled, you will be prompted to
re-enter the wireless settings data to ensure sensitive data is not exposed. When
deploying location profiles that provide a wireless network connection, the
donor and recipient must contain wireless adapters which support the
capabilities defined in the location profile. If the location profile being deployed
is configured for LEAP authentication, the adapters on the recipient systems
must support LEAP authentication.