Smart Technologies 9.5 manual

Installation Guide for System Administr ator s SMAR T Boar d ™ Softwar e 9.5[...]

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Table of Co ntents 1 T able of Conte nt s SMART Board Sof tware 9.5 Administration 1 Overview ............. ................... .................... ................... .................... ................... ........................... 1 About Microsoft® Insta ller ... ................... ................... .................... ................[...]

2 Table of Co ntents Sharing Gallery Content ............. ................... ....................... ................... ................... ........... ........ 19 To install SMART Boar d software and place Galle ry content on a network server . ............... 19 To silently install SMART Boar d software , registered wit h shar ed Gallery conte[...]

SMART Board Software 9.5 Administration 1 SMART Board Sof tware 9.5 Administration Overview If you're a system administrator , use this guid e to deploy SMART Board 9.5 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[...]

2 SMART Board Software 9.5 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[...]

SMART Board Software 9.5 Administration 3 Examples of Msiexe c Command Lines Silent Inst allation Y ou can use the install option (/i) together with the quiet optional parame ter (/q) to install 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 ca[...]

4 SMART Board Software 9.5 Administration Inst alling Notebook Sof tware and Content to a Network Serve r Y ou can ad d 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 co ntent files to a specified network folder . For example: mssi[...]

Silent Removal of Earlier SMART Board Software Versions 5 Silent Removal of Earlier SMART Board Sof tware V ersions About Removing Earlier V ersions When you silently install SMAR T Bo ard software 9.x, unlike an intera ctive installation process, the Windows installer doesn’t atte mpt to remove any earlier ve rsions of SMART Board software from [...]

6 Silent Removal of Earlier SMART Board Software Versions Y ou only need to create the initial setup.is s 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 tabl[...]

Silent Removal of Earlier SMART Board Software Versions 7 Removing SMART Board Sof tware 8.x SMART used the Inst all Shield installation utility to inst all SMART Board sof tware 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 the [...]

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Silently Installin g Other Languages 9 Silently Inst alling Other Languages If you use the basic silent installation com mand shown on p age 3, the installation program insta lls only the English folder groups and icons regardless of what language the co mputer ’s Win dows operating system is running. T o silently insta ll SMA R T Board software [...]

10 Silently Installin g Other Languages Silently Removing Language Packs NOTE: If you want to silently remove all componen ts of SMAR T Board software , including language packs, you must remove the language packs first. If you remove SMAR T Board software before you remove the languag e packs, you can’t run the following command. The following e[...]

Installing Notebook Gallery Content 11 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[...]

12 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 Gallery Set up.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[...]

Installing Notebook Gallery Content 13 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 progra m, you can select the G allery content that it will install to (or remove fr om) your computer , and select[...]

14 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> <[...]

Installing Notebook Gallery Content 15 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.c om for SMART Essentials), or /configura tion p[...]

16 Installing Notebook Gallery Content Flag Description -remote Use this flag to prevent the Gallery Setup ap plication from registering itself with Notebook. This disables the "Check for Updates" feat ure and prevents users from up dating the content. -verbose Use this flag to output progr ess of operations to stdout when working in comm[...]

Installing Notebook Gallery Content 17 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[...]

18 Installing Notebook Gallery Content Examples of Gallery Se tup.exe Command Lines NOTE: The /configuration parame ter now specifies a path to the .g allerycollecti on file, not the configuratio n.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 all Gallery co[...]

Installing Notebook Gallery Content 19 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 shared Galle ry content as "their own." If any user in the system removes their SMART Board software, they will also remove the shared conten[...]

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Administering Notebook C ontent After Insta llation 21 Administering Notebook Content Af ter Installation 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 My[...]

22 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 [...]

Administering Notebook C ontent After Insta llation 23 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[...]

24 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[...]

Installing Service Packs 25 Inst alling Service Packs SMART of fers free upgr ades for licensed users. If you’ve alre ady installed SMAR T Board sof tware 9.5, you ca n download serv ice packs from the SMART website to update SMA RT Board software on your Windows com puter . Individual SMAR T Board sof tware 9.5 users can download the curr ent se[...]

26 Installing Service Packs Y ou can add the quiet switch /qn to the default command line installation above to inst all the service pack silently . 1. Click Star t > Ru n and type CMD. A DOS window opens. 2. T y pe the following c ommand line: msiexec /p " Path to the .msp Board95ServicePackSPx.msp " /qn REINSTALLMODE=omus REINSTALL=[...]

Troubleshooting Insta llation Problems 27 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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