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Installation Guide for
System Administrators
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SMART Board Software 9.7
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Trademark Notice SMART Board, Notebook, Sympodium, AirLiner, smarttech and the SMART logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of SMART Technologies Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Windows is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other third-party product and company names may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright Notice © 2006-2007 SMART Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this
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Table of Contents SMART Board Software 9.7 Administration 1 Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 1 About Microsoft® Installer ........................................................................................................ 1 Command Line Options............................................................................................................1 The SMART Board Software In
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Administering Notebook Content After Installation 17 Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 17 To start Notebook software in Administration mode............................................................... 17 Changing the Location of the My Content Folder.......................................................................... 17 To change the location of the My Content folder............
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SMART Board Software 9.7 Administration Overview If you're a system administrator, use this guide to deploy SMART Board™ software in a workgroup, computer lab or full institution environment. You can also use this information in conjunction with imaging or remote management tools to automate the installation process further. The following sections show you how to: • silently install and remove SMART Board software components • silently install service packs • move Gallery folders to other loca
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The SMART Board Software Installation Package The SMART Board software installation package contains all of the information that the Windows Installer requires to install or remove the application and to run the user setup interface. Simply double-click the SMART Board Software.msi file in Windows Explorer or run the .msi file from a command line to start the Windows Installer and interactively install the package using default parameters. NOTES • The default installation automatically insta
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Examples of Msiexec Command Lines Silent Installation You can use the install option (/i) together with the quiet optional parameter (/q) to install the software in Silent mode, that is, without the user interface. For example: msiexec /i"Path to .msi\SMART Board Software.msi" /q You can use other standard Windows Installer optional parameters, such as: /qb - shows only a progress indicator /q - shows only a dialog box signaling the end of the installation NOTES • A silent installation doesn’t
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Installing Notebook Software and Content to a Network Server You can add the NOTEBOOK_ONLY and INSTALLDIR properties to the command to silently install Notebook software, including Help, Spell Checker, Language and Gallery Sampler content files to a specified network folder. For example: mssiexec /i"Path to .msi\SMART Board Software.msi" NOTEBOOK_ONLY=1 INSTALLDIR="UNC path" /q If you run the same command line on all computers, using the same network path, all users can share the installed f
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Silently Removing Earlier Versions of SMART Board Software About Removing Earlier Versions IMPORTANT SMART recommends that you remove any previous version of SMART Board software before silently installing a new version. When you silently install SMART Board software, unlike an interactive installation process, the Windows installer doesn’t attempt to remove any earlier versions of SMART Board software from your computer. Although the installation is successful, the new software installs on
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To create the silent removal file You only need to create the initial setup.iss file once. You can then use this setup.iss file to remove the same version of SMART Board software from other computers on your network. 1. Check the version of SMART Board software that are installed on your computers. Refer to the table above to identify the GUID you must use in the following commands. 2. Click Start > Run and type CMD into the Open field. A DOS window opens. 3. Type: RunDll32 C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON
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Removing SMART Board Software 8.x SMART used the Install Shield installation utility to install SMART Board software versions 8.x. To remove these versions of software silently, you must create a setup.iss file. Before you can perform the following procedures, you must obtain the product code for your version of SMART Board software. Refer to the following table for the ProductCode value to use for these versions of software: SMART Board ProductCode Software Version 8.0.0 {7823065C-AA64-425D
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Silently Installing Other Languages When you perform an interactive SMART Board software installation, the installation program automatically installs SMART Board software’s folder groups and icons in the Windows operating system’s language. If you use the basic .msi silent installation command shown on page 3, the installation program installs only the English folder groups and icons regardless of what language the computer’s Windows operating system is running. To silently install SMART Bo
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Installing Notebook Gallery Content Introduction The SMART Notebook software installation package, the SMART Essentials for Educators.msi file, contains all of the information that the Windows Installer requires to install or uninstall the Gallery files and to run the user setup interface. To perform a default installation of Notebook Gallery content 1. Click Start > Run and type CMD. A DOS window opens. 2. Type the following command line: msiexec /i"Path to .msi\SMART Essentials for Educator
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Examples of Msiexec Command Lines Silently Installing from the SMART Website You can use the following command line to install the Gallery Setup.exe and supporting files from the path to the default destination of C:\Program Files\Common Files\SMART Technologies Inc\Gallery: msiexec /i"Path to .msi\SMART Essentials for Educators.msi" FULLCONTENT=1 /qn Once the installation program has copied the files, the command line silently runs the Gallery Setup.exe program, installing all Gallery conte
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Installing Notebook Gallery Content At the end of an interactive installation of SMART Board software, the installer software starts the Gallery Setup.exe program automatically. Using this program, you can select the Gallery content that it will install to (or remove from) your computer, and select the destination folder for the Gallery files. The SMART Board software installation installs the Gallery Setup.exe program and supporting files to the default destination of C:\Program Files\Commo
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Installation Command Usage Common options: [<-overrideproxy> [-proxy proxyhost:port]] [-username name] [-password pass] [-verbose] GUI: [-source path] [-configuration path | -guid gallery_id] {common options} Install everything: --installall [-destination path] <-source path | -allowdownload> <- configuration path | -guid gallery_id> [-remote] {common options} Install selected: --installsome [-destination path] <-source path | -allowdownload> [- remote] <-configuration path | -guid gallery_id>
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Installation Options The following tables explain the functions of the commands, optional command line flags and values you can use to customize the installation. Specify a particular gallery to work with using a -guid parameter (-guid gallery.smarttech.com for SMART Essentials), or /configuration parameter (-configuration “path/SMARTEssentials.gallerycollection” for SMART Essentials for Educators) Command Function --downloadall Use this command to download all Gallery collections into a de
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Parameter Description /source "path" This parameter defines the full path to a local or network location where the Gallery data files are stored before installation. If you omit the parameter, the installation program uses the default URL from the gallery configuration, as specified by the /guid or /configuration parameters. /destination "path" This parameter defines the full path to a local or network location where the installation program installs the Gallery files. If you omit the param
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Examples of Gallery Setup.exe Command Lines NOTE: The /configuration parameter now specifies a path to the SMARTEssentials.gallerycollection file, not the configuration.xml file as in previous versions. Downloading all Gallery Content to a Local or Network Folder You can use the following command to copy all Gallery content from a specific source folder to a common destination folder where authorized users can install them: "Path to .exe\Gallery setup.exe" --downloadall /destination "path" /so
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Sharing Gallery Content When you set up a system where all Notebook software users share the Gallery content located on a network server, all users see the shared Gallery content as "their own." If any user in the system removes their SMART Board software, they will also remove the shared content from the network server. To prevent this from occurring, SMART recommends the following process: To install SMART Board software and place Gallery content on a network server 1. Start an interactive
