Lenovo ThinkServer TS140 - Security and Password Settings

Exitmenu
AfteryoufinishviewingorchangingsettingsintheSetupUtilityprogram,youcanchooseadesiredaction
fromtheExitmenutosavechanges,discardchanges,orloaddefaultvalues,andexittheprogram.Press
EntertoselecttheitemontheExitmenuandthenselectYeswhenpromptedtoconfirmtheaction.For
informationaboutexitingtheSetupUtilityprogram,see“ExitingfromtheSetupUtilityprogram”onpage25
.
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”onpage19.
2.OntheMainmenu,selectSystemTime&Date.
3.UsetheTabkeytoswitchbetweendataelementsandtypethenumbersfromthekeyboardtosetthe
systemdateandtime.
4.PressF10tosavesettingsandexittheSetupUtilityprogram.
Usingpasswords
ByusingtheSetupUtilityprogram,youcansetpasswordstopreventunauthorizedaccesstoyourcomputer
anddata.Thefollowingtypesofpasswordsareavailable:
•Power-OnPassword
•AdministratorPassword
Youdonothavetosetanypasswordstouseyourcomputer.However,usingpasswordsimproves
computingsecurity.Ifyoudecidetosetanypasswords,readthefollowingsections.
Passwordconsiderations
Apasswordcanbeanycombinationofupto64alphabeticandnumericcharacters.Forsecurityreasons,it
isrecommendedtouseastrongpasswordthatcannotbeeasilycompromised.Tosetastrongpassword,
usethefollowingguidelines:
•Haveatleasteightcharactersinlength
•Containatleastonealphabeticcharacterandonenumericcharacter
•SetupUtilityprogramandharddiskdrivepasswordsarenotcasesensitive
•Notbeyournameoryourusername
•Notbeacommonwordoracommonname
•Besignificantlydifferentfromyourpreviouspasswords
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