Thick2Thin Converter

Project Overview

During an Internship, I was assigned with the task of re-imaging, then converting 60+ Thick Clients to Thin Clients. I immediately began teaching myself how to automate it. Automating one task at a time, I figured out how to script the entire re-imaging process using Batch and WinPE. However, the conversion part took some deep digging through multiple forums as not much documentation was provided by DELL regarding this.
After about a week, I had successfully automated the entire process including some aspects that were not able to be done manually!

The Re-Imaging script performed the following tasks:
• • Format existing drives
• • Create new partitions
• • Create a bootable partition
• • Install custom Disk Image
• • Change Device Name to the current Dell Service Tag
• • Request to join the company domain
• • Upload .txt file to NAS containing the Service Tag letting SysAd know that it is waiting on Domain approval
• • Update custom apps that were installed within the image
• • Delete unnecessary files that were needed for imaging
• • Run Windows Updates
• • Continue to restart, checking each time if any DellCommand or Windows Updates are available.
• • When none are available, the Converter script is ran.

The Converter script performed the following tasks:
• • Silently Install Dell Wyse Converter
• • Install VMware Horizon Client
• • Configure System Preferences + Peripherals
• • Configures Wyze Group Key
• • Configures Horizon Connection Server
• • Enrolls device into WMS
• • Sends Device ID to network drive to notify SysAd it is ready to be accepted in WMS
• • Restarts once device accepted to pull updates


While I was the sole author of this script, I created it during company time therefore I will not be making the source code publicly available.