Smart Technologies 9.7 SMART Board Software 9.7 Administration

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SMART Board Software 9.7 Administration

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 locations, locally or on a network server

• start Notebook software in Administration mode so that you can set up team Gallery content

and custom online resources

• troubleshoot installation problems

SMART Board software versions 9 and later use the Microsoft Windows Installer installation and

configuration service. Windows® Installer is a component of Windows Me, Windows 2000,

Windows XP, and the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family. Microsoft also provides the Installer

as a service pack to Windows 98, Windows 95, and Windows NT 4.0.

Windows Installer manages the installation and removal of applications by applying a set of

centrally defined setup rules during the installation process. These setup rules define the

installation and configuration of the installed application. In addition, you can use this service to

modify, repair or remove an existing application.

The Microsoft Windows Installer program, Msiexec.exe, interprets and installs software packages

and patch files.

The general structure of an installer command is:

msiexec /Option <Required Param> [Opt Param] [PROPERTY=PropertyValue]

The Installer supports a variety of options and parameters to control the installation, the behavior

of the user interface and how the Installer logs the installation process. SMART has defined

several properties and values to customize the installation further.

NOTE: Command line options are case-insensitive.

For a complete list of command line options, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library and search for

installer command line.

The following is an example of command line syntax. You can use the command line to install the

Example.msi package from the computer’s drive Y:

msiexec /i Y:\Example.msi