Page 3 - Table of Contents; SMART Board Software 9.5 Administration
Table of Contents 1 Table of Contents SMART Board Software 9.5 Administration 1 Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 1 About Microsoft® Installer ...............................................
Page 4 - Administering Notebook Content After Installation
2 Table of Contents Sharing Gallery Content ................................................................................................................ 19 To install SMART Board software and place Gallery content on a network server ................ 19To silently install SMART Board software, r...
Page 5 - Overview; About Microsoft® Installer; installer command line
SMART Board Software 9.5 Administration 1 SMART Board Software 9.5 Administration Overview If you're a system administrator, use this guide to deploy SMART Board 9.5 software in a workgroup, computer lab or full institution environment. You can also use this information in conjunction with imaging o...
Page 6 - The SMART Board Software Installation Package; Installation Options; Destination
2 SMART Board Software 9.5 Administration 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 ...
Page 7 - Examples of Msiexec Command Lines; Silent Installation; Silent Patching; NOTES
SMART Board Software 9.5 Administration 3 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 ...
Page 8 - Installing Notebook Software and Content to a Network Server; files to a specified network folder. For example:; This command doesn’t install SMART Board software.; Installing without Print Capture; without the print capture driver:
4 SMART Board Software 9.5 Administration 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 specifie...
Page 9 - Silent Removal of Earlier SMART Board Software Versions; About Removing Earlier Versions; Programs; Removing SMART Board Software 7.x; IMPORTANT
Silent Removal of Earlier SMART Board Software Versions 5 Silent Removal of Earlier SMART Board Software Versions About Removing Earlier Versions When you silently install SMART Board software 9.x, unlike an interactive installation process, the Windows installer doesn’t attempt to remove any earlie...
Page 10 - To create the silent removal file
6 Silent Removal of Earlier SMART Board Software Versions 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 insta...
Page 11 - Removing SMART Board Software 8.x; ProductCode
Silent Removal of Earlier SMART Board Software Versions 7 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 fol...
Page 13 - Silently Installing Other Languages; application’s folder groups and icons.; Silently Installing Alternate Language Folders and Icons; for that language, as shown in the following table.; Installing Language Packs; The
Silently Installing Other Languages 9 Silently Installing Other Languages If you use the basic 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 si...
Page 14 - Silently Removing Language Packs; language packs from the computer:
10 Silently Installing Other Languages Silently Removing Language Packs NOTE: If you want to silently remove all components of SMART Board software, including language packs, you must remove the language packs first. If you remove SMART Board software before you remove the language packs, you can’t ...
Page 15 - Installing Notebook Gallery Content; Introduction; SMART Essentials for Educators.msi; Properties
Installing Notebook Gallery Content 11 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 ...
Page 16 - Silently Installing from the SMART Website; Gallery; Inc\Essentials for Educators; Silently Installing from the CD (or Image); Path to gallery data files; Silently Removing SMART Essentials for Educators
12 Installing Notebook Gallery Content 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 Technologie...
Page 17 - CMD; To start
Installing Notebook Gallery Content 13 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 ...
Page 18 - Installation Command Usage; Create full local source:
14 Installing Notebook Gallery Content 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...
Page 19 - Command
Installing Notebook Gallery Content 15 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...
Page 20 - Flag
16 Installing Notebook Gallery Content Flag Description -remote Use this flag to prevent the Gallery Setup application from registering itself with Notebook. This disables the "Check for Updates" feature and prevents users from updating the content. -verbose Use this flag to output progress ...
Page 21 - path; guid; alias
Installing Notebook Gallery Content 17 NOTES • When you include some of these command options, the Gallery Setup.exe application doesn't open the setup dialog and operates in an "unattended" mode outputting to stdout. • The Gallery Setup.exe installation program doesn't support Microsoft Ins...
Page 22 - Examples of Gallery Setup.exe Command Lines; The /configuration parameter now specifies a path to the; Downloading all Gallery Content to a Local or Network Folder; Installing Select Gallery Content; defined in the; Registering Installed Gallery Content with Notebook Software; You can use the following command to remove SMART Essentials:
18 Installing Notebook Gallery Content Examples of Gallery Setup.exe Command Lines NOTE: The /configuration parameter now specifies a path to the .gallerycollection file, not the configuration.xml file as in previous versions. Downloading all Gallery Content to a Local or Network Folder You can use ...
Page 23 - Sharing Gallery Content; SMART Essentials for Educators; Browse; folders and files installed.; OK; The installer copies the selected content to the network folder.
Installing Notebook Gallery Content 19 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 softwa...
Page 25 - Gallery Sampler and the Essentials for Educators; Run; Changing the Location of the My Content Folder; My Content; To start Notebook software in Administration mode
Administering Notebook Content After Installation 21 Administering Notebook Content After Installation Introduction When users start Notebook software by clicking the Notebook icon, they can use installed content from the Gallery Sampler and the Essentials for Educators folders. They can also use an...
Page 26 - Creating Team Content Folders; To change the location of the My Content folder; WARNING
22 Administering Notebook Content After Installation 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 its contents to the new location. 2. While in Adm...
Page 27 - To create a Team Content folder
Administering Notebook Content After Installation 23 1. While in Administration mode, click the Show Additional Gallery Actions button. 2. Select Administration: Content Locations . The Administration: Content Locations dialog box opens. 3. Click Create New. The Browse For Folder dialog box opens. 4...
Page 28 - Customizing Online Resources; Administration: Content Locations; To create a My Resources content folder
24 Administering Notebook Content After Installation 6. Click Close . NOTES – Updating the Team Content folder’s name may take thirty seconds or more. – While in Administration mode, you can add, remove and rename Team Content folders from any computer in the team without warning. Customizing Online...
Page 29 - Installing Service Packs; The Service Pack Installation Package; Board95ServicePackSPx.msp
Installing Service Packs 25 Installing Service Packs SMART offers free upgrades for licensed users. If you’ve already installed SMART Board software 9.5, you can download service packs from the SMART website to update SMART Board software on your Windows computer. Individual SMART Board software 9.5...
Page 30 - The Service Pack Installation Program; To perform a silent installation using the installation package
26 Installing Service Packs You can add the quiet switch /qn to the default command line installation above to install the service pack silently. 1. Click Start > Run and type CMD. A DOS window opens. 2. Type the following command line: msiexec /p " Path to the .msp \Board95ServicePackSPx.msp...
Page 31 - Troubleshooting Installation Problems; Start; To download and run the Cleanup utility
Troubleshooting Installation Problems 27 Troubleshooting Installation Problems Introduction When you remove a previous version of SMART Board software, the uninstall process may leave behind some registry entries, preventing the installation of the current version of SMART Board software. If you hav...
Page 32 - SMART Technologies Inc.
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