Lenovo ThinkServer TS140 70A0 - Setting the System Date and Time; Using Passwords

Exitmenu
AfteryoufinishviewingorchangingsettingsintheSetupUtilityprogram,youcanchooseadesiredaction
fromtheExitmenutosavechanges,discardchanges,orloaddefaultvalues,andexittheprogram.Press
EntertoselecttheitemontheExitmenuandthenselectYeswhenpromptedtoconfirmtheaction.For
informationaboutexitingtheSetupUtilityprogram,see“ExitingfromtheSetupUtilityprogram”onpage29
.
TheExitmenucontainsthefollowingitems:
•SaveChangesandExit:SavechangesandexittheSetupUtilityprogram.
•DiscardChangesandExit:Discardchanges,loadpreviousvalues,andthenexittheSetupUtility
program.
•LoadOptimalDefaults:Restoretheuserdefaultvaluesforalltheitems.
•OSOptimizedDefaults:SelectEnabledtomeettheMicrosoftWindows8certificationrequirement.The
settingsfortheCSMsupport,bootmode,bootpriority,secureboot,andsecurityRollBackprevention
willbeaffected.
Settingthesystemdateandtime
ThistopicprovidesinstructionsonhowtosetthesystemdateandtimeintheSetupUtilityprogram.
TosetthesystemdateandtimeintheSetupUtilityprogram,dothefollowing:
1.StarttheSetupUtilityprogram.See“StartingtheSetupUtilityprogram”onpage23.
2.OntheMainmenu,selectSystemTime&Date.
3.UsetheTabkeytoswitchbetweendataelementsandtypethenumbersfromthekeyboardtosetthe
systemdateandtime.
4.PressF10tosavesettingsandexittheSetupUtilityprogram.
Usingpasswords
ByusingtheSetupUtilityprogram,youcansetapasswordtopreventunauthorizedaccesstoyourserver.
Thefollowingtypesofpasswordsareavailable:
•Power-OnPassword
•AdministratorPassword
Youdonothavetosetapasswordtouseyourserver.However,usingapasswordimprovescomputing
security.Ifyoudecidetosetapassword,readthefollowingtopics.
Passwordconsiderations
Apasswordcanbeanycombinationofupto64alphabeticandnumericcharacters.Forsecurityreasons,it
isrecommendedtouseastrongpasswordthatcannotbeeasilycompromised.Tosetastrongpassword,
usethefollowingguidelines:
•Haveatleasteightcharactersinlength
•Containatleastonealphabeticcharacterandonenumericcharacter
•SetupUtilityprogramandharddiskdrivepasswordsarenotcasesensitive
•Notbeyournameoryourusername
•Notbeacommonwordoracommonname
•Besignificantlydifferentfromyourpreviouspasswords
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