Network Installation Guide Table of contents Scan to PC Desktop v9.0 Network Installation Guide... 3 Table of contents ... 3 Introduction... 4 Scan to PC Desktop software components... 5 Windows 2000/2003 Server with Active Directory Support ... 6 Systems Management Server Support ... 7 Creating administrative images...
Introduction This guide provides instructions for installing the software associated with Scan to PC Desktop in a network environment. Targeted users are administrators, Information Technology specialists or programmers who set up or perform network installations. It assumes the reader is familiar with Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server with Active Directory or with Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS), in addition to program package setup, advertising and distribution.
Scan to PC Desktop software components Scan to PC Desktop is delivered in two CD-ROM variants: Special Edition and Professional Edition. These two editions of Scan to PC Desktop comprise different software products from Nuance. All the installers of these software components support MSI (Windows Installer-based) distribution.
Windows 2000/2003 Server with Active Directory Support Active Directory is a feature of Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2003 Server. Group Policy, a component of Active Directory, includes a Software Installation snap-in that enables an administrator to create a network installation. The administrator can use this feature to install software to Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista clients only.
Systems Management Server Support Systems Management Server (SMS) provides a mechanism for pushing application installations out from the server to client systems. SMS supports all versions of Windows 2000, XP and Vista when installing products that use Windows Installer (MSI) technology. SMS requires that a client application be installed on all client machines.
Creating administrative images This section describes how to create administrative images of the software components of Scan to PC Desktop onto the network. Such an administrative installation will extract the necessary files into a network location specified during the installation. This location is also known as a Software Distribution Point. An administrative installation will not install any program files.
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3. If applicable, select a language for the administrative installation (not necessary if setup language was specified in the command line). During installation, specify a target network location for the created. Share this location (Software Distribution Point). Software components and their installer locations for the Special Edition: Software component PaperPort 11 SE OmniPage SE 4...
Deployment - Active Directory This section describes how to install the software components of Scan to PC Desktop onto clients’ systems using Active Directory. Prerequisites A working Active Directory environment. • A Software Distribution Point (with administrative images of the software components) •...
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You must repeat the steps below, as many times as many software component installations are needed. 1. Open Administrative Tools\Active Directory Users and Computers, select the object, then a domain, site, or organization unit. Create a Group Policy Object as follows: a.
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Software components and their installers for the Special Edition: Software component InstallShield Installscript engine PaperPort 11 SE OmniPage SE 4 Image Retriever 7 SE PaperPort Image Printer Software components and their installers for the Professional Edition: Software component Installscript engine PaperPort Professional 11 OmniPage Professional 15 PDF Converter Professional 4...
Deployment - SMS server This section describes how to install software components of Scan to PC Desktop onto a client's system using SMS Server in "Create a new package and program" Wizard mode. Prerequisites A Software Distribution Point (with administrative images of the software components) •...
Software components and their installers for the Professional Edition: Software component Installscript engine PaperPort Professional 11 OmniPage Professional 15 PDF Converter Professional 4 Image Retriever 7 Pro PaperPort Image Printer Deployment steps Please follow the instructions below to install the components of Scan to PC Desktop appropriately.
WATCHFOLDER, FOLDERWATCH, EMAILPROFILE, EMAILWATCH, POLINT and PPACTION. For more details, please see the Customized Install section of the Image Retriever Guide. 7. To install the PaperPort Image Printer, use the following command-line: MSIEXEC /i "PaperPort Image Printer.msi" ALLUSERS=2 TRANSFORMS=<LANG-TRFILE.mst> 8. To install PDF Converter Professional 4 MSIEXEC /i "ScanSoft PDF Professional 4.msi"...
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9. To install Image Retriever 7 Pro or Image Retriever 7 SE with English user interface by specifying the folder to watch and enable folder-watching, use the following command- line: MSIEXEC /i "Image Retriever 7.msi" ALLUSERS=2 TRANSFORMS=1033.mst WATCHFOLDER=\\OMEGA\SCANS FOLDERWATCH=1 10. To install Image Retriever 7 Pro or Image Retriever 7 SE with German user interface, by setting the default watch interval to 5 minutes, use the following command-line: MSIEXEC /i "Image Retriever 7.msi"...