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Installation Guide for System Administr ator s SMAR T Boar d ™ Softwar e 9.7[...]
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T rade mark N otic e SM AR T Bo ard , N ote bo ok , Symp od ium , A irL ine r , sma r t tec h a nd the SM AR T lo go are tra de mar ks or re gis te red tra dem ark s of SMA RT T e chn olo gie s I nc . in t he U.S . a nd /or oth er cou ntr ies . Wi ndo ws is eit her a reg is ter ed trad em ark or a t rad ema rk of M icro so f t C orp ora tio n in th[...]
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Table of Co ntents i T able of Conte nt s SMART Board Sof tware 9.7 Administration 1 Overview ............. ................... .................... ................... .................... ................... ........................... 1 About Microsoft® Insta ller ... ................... ................... .................... ................[...]
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ii Table of Co ntents Administering Notebook Content Af ter Installat ion 17 Introduction ............ .................... ................... ................... .................... ................... ...... ................ 17 To start Notebook software in Administ ration mode ................... ...................... ................... ... [...]
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SMART Board Software 9.7 Administration 1 SMART Board Sof tware 9.7 Administration Overview If you're a system administrator , use this guide to deploy SMART Board™ sof tware in a workgroup, computer la b or full institution envi ronment. Y ou ca n also use this information in conjunction with imaging or remote management tools to automate t[...]
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2 SMART Board Software 9.7 Administration The SMART Board Sof tware Inst allation Package The SMAR T Board sof tware inst allation packag e co nta ins all of the inform ation that the Windows Installer requ ires to install or remove the applic ation and to run the user setup interface. Simply double-click the SMART Board So ftware .msi file in Wind[...]
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SMART Board Software 9.7 Administration 3 Examples of Msiexe c Command Lines Silent Inst allation Y ou can use the insta ll option (/i) together with the quiet optional p arameter (/q) to inst all the software in Silent mode, that is, wi thout the user interface. For exampl e: msiexec /i " Path to .msi SMART Board Software.msi " /q Y ou [...]
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4 SMART Board Software 9.7 Administration Inst alling Notebook Sof tware and Content to a Network Serve r Y ou can add the NOTEBOOK_ONL Y and INST ALLD IR properties to the comma nd to silently insta ll Notebook software, includin g Help, S pell Checker , Language and Gallery Sampler content files to a specified network folder . For example: mssiex[...]
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Silently Removing Earlier Vers ions of SMART Board Software 5 Silently Removing Earlier V ersions of SMART Board Sof tware About Removing Earlier V ersions When you silently install SMAR T Board software, unlike an interactive inst allation process, the Windows installer doesn’t atte mpt to remove any earlier ve rsions of SMART Board software fro[...]
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6 Silently Removing Earlier Vers ions of SMART Board Software Y ou only need to create the initial setu p.iss file once. Y ou can t hen use this setup.iss file to remove the same version of SM ART Board sof tware from other computers on your network. 1. Check the version of SMAR T Board sof tware that are installed on your computers. Refer to the t[...]
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Silently Removing Earlier Vers ions of SMART Board Software 7 Removing SMART Board Sof tware 8.x SMART used the Inst all S hield installation utility to inst all SMART Board software versions 8.x. T o remove these ve rsions of soft wa re silently , you must create a setup.iss file. Before you can per form the following procedures , you must obtain [...]
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8 Silently Installin g Other Languages Silently Inst alling Other Languages When you perform an inte ractive SMART Board sof tware inst allation, the installation p rogram automatically installs SMAR T Board sof tware’ s folder groups and ico ns in the Windows operating system’s language. If you use the basic .msi silent installatio n command s[...]
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Installing Notebook Gallery Content 9 Inst alling Notebook Gallery Content Introduction The SMART Note book software installa tion package, the SMART Essentials for Educators.msi file, contai ns all of the information that the Windows Installer requ ires to install or uninst all the Gallery files and to run th e user setup interface. 1. Click Star [...]
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10 Installing Notebook Gallery Content Examples of Msiexe c Command Lines Silently Inst alling from the SMART W ebsite Y ou can use the following command line to install the Galle ry Setup.exe and suppor ting files from the path to the default destination of C:Program FilesCommon F ilesSMAR T T echnologies IncGallery : msiexec /i " Path to[...]
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Installing Notebook Gallery Content 11 Inst alling Notebook Gallery Content At the end of an interactive insta llation of SMART Board sof tware, the insta ller software star ts the Gallery Setup.exe prog ram automatically . Usin g this program , you can select the Galle ry content that it will install to (or remove fr om) your computer , and selec [...]
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12 Installing Notebook Gallery Content Inst allation Command Usage Common options: [<-overrideproxy> [-proxy proxyhost:port]] [-username name] [-password pass] [-verbose] GUI: [-source path] [-configuration path | -guid gallery_id] {common options} Inst all everything: --installall [-destination path] <-source path | -allowdownload> <[...]
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Installing Notebook Gallery Content 13 Inst allation Options The following table s explain the functions of the commands, optional command line flag s and values you can use to customize the inst allation. S pecify a particular gallery to work with using a -guid parame ter (-guid g allery . smarttech.co m for SMART Essentials), or /configuration pa[...]
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14 Installing Notebook Gallery Content NOTES • When you include some of these comman d options, the Gallery Setup.exe application doesn't open the setup dialo g and operates in an "unatten ded" mode outputting to std out. •T h e Gallery Setup.exe installation program doesn't supp ort Microsoft Install er options. Parameter D[...]
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Installing Notebook Gallery Content 15 Examples of Gallery Se tup.exe Command Lines NOTE: The /configuration parame ter now specifies a path to the SMARTEssentials.g allerycollection file, not the configuration.xml file as in previous versions. Downloading all Gallery Content to a Local or Network Folder Y ou can use the following command to copy a[...]
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16 Installing Notebook Gallery Content Sharing Gallery Content When you set up a system wher e all Notebook so ftwa re users share the Gallery content located on a network server , all users see the shar ed Galle ry content as "their own." If any user in the system removes their SMART Board software, they will also remove the shared conte[...]
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Administering Notebook C ontent After Insta llation 17 Administering Notebook Content Af ter Inst allation Introduction When users start Note book software by clicking the Notebook icon, they can use installed content from the Gallery Sampler and th e Essentials for Educators folders. They can also use and add new content and folders to their own M[...]
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18 Administering Notebook C ontent After Insta llation NOTE: Before you can change the location of the My Content folder , you must create a folder containing an imsmanifest.xml file in the new location. 1. Copy or move an existing My Content folder and it s contents to the new loca tion. 2. While in Administra tion mode, click the Show Additional [...]
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Administering Notebook C ontent After Insta llation 19 1. While in Administra tion mode, click the Show Additional Gallery Actions bu tton. 2. Select Administration: Conte nt Locations . The Administration: Conten t Locations dialog box open s. 3. Click Create New . The Browse For Folder dialog box opens. 4. Browse to the locatio n where you want t[...]
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20 Administering Notebook C ontent After Insta llation 6. Click Close . NOTES – Updating the T eam Content folder’s name may take thirty se conds or more. – While in Administration mode, you ca n add, remove and rename T eam Content folders from any computer in the team without warning. Customizing Online Resources When you install SMAR T Not[...]
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Installing Service Packs 21 Inst allin g Service Packs SMART of fers upgrades for licensed use rs. If you’ve already install ed SMART Board sof tware, check the SMAR T website to see if there are service p acks you can download to update SMART Board software on your Wind ows computer . Individual SM AR T Board software users can down load an avai[...]
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22 Installing Service Packs Y ou can add the quiet switch /qn to the default comm and line installation ab ove to install the service pack silently . 1. Click Star t > Ru n and type CMD. A DOS window opens. 2. T ype t he following comm and line: msiexec /p " Path to the .msp BoardXYServicePackSPx.msp " /qn REINSTALLMODE=omus REINSTALL[...]
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Installing Service Packs 23 The Service Pack Inst allation Program Y ou can also download the BoardXYServicePackSPx.exe (where XY is the SMART Board software version num ber and x is the service pack num ber) installation progra m from the SMART website. Y ou can run the progr am from the website, or you can download the BoardXYServicePackSPx.exe f[...]
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24 Troubleshooting Insta llation Problems T roubleshooting Inst allation Problems Introduction When you rem ove a previou s version of SM AR T Board software, the uninstall proc ess may leave behind some reg istry entries, preventin g the installation of the current vers ion of SMART Board software. If you h ave problems installing SMAR T Board sof[...]
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SMART T echnologies Inc. 1207 – 11 Avenue SW , Suite 300 Calgary , AB T3C 0M5 CANADA Support +1.403.228.5940 or T oll Free 1.866.518.6791 (Canada/U.S.) www .smarttech.com/support www .smarttech.com/contactsupport[...]