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Scan to PC Desktop v7.0 Network Installation Guide This document provides instructions for installing the software associated with Scan to PC Desktop in a network environment. Xerox Corporation 800 Phillips Rd. Webster, NY 14580-9791 ScanSoft, Inc. One Wayside Road Burlington, MA 01803 © 2005 Xerox Corporation and ScanSoft Inc. All rights reserved. XEROX®, The Document Company®, the stylized X®, and the identifying product names and numbers herein are trademarks of XEROX CORPORATION. ScanSoft an
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Scan to PC Desktop v7.0 Network Installation Guide Table of contents Scan to PC Desktop v7.0 Network Installation Guide............................................................... 3 Table of contents ........................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction................................................................................................................................... 4 Scan to PC Desktop softwa
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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. Network installation
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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 ScanSoft. All the installers of these software components support MSI (Windows Installer-based) distribution. Software components for Special Edition CD-ROM: Software component 1 PaperPort 10.0 SE 2 OmniPage SE 3.0 3 Image Retriever 5.2 SE Software components for Professional Edi
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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 and Windows XP clients only. The snap-in cannot be used to install software to clients with older versions of the Windows operating
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Systems Management Server Support Systems Management Server (SMS) provides a mechanism for pushing application installations out from the server to client systems. SMS supports the following versions of Windows: Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP when installing products that use Windows Installer (MSI) technology. SMS requires a client application to be installed on all client machines. The software components of Scan to PC Desktop were tested using SMS version 2.0 with Service Pack 4. SM
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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. Administrators can run an administrative installation from the command line by using t
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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). 4. During installation, specify a target network location for the administrative image to be created. 5. Share this location (Software Distribution Point). Software components and their installer locations for the Special Edition: Software component Installer location on the CD-ROM Command PP10SE\PaperPort SETUP /A 1 PaperPort 10.0 SE 2 OmniPage SE 3.0 OPSE
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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) A deployment target computer that is a member of a domain, site, or organizational unit. MSI 2.0 installed on the target computer. Installation order Before starting to install any component o
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Deployment steps This procedure describes how to install a given component of Scan to PC Desktop. 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. Right-click the domain or the selected container. b. Select Properties, click the Group Policy tab, select New, and then name the
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Note: When installing PDF Converter 1.3, the addition of the transform file "ScanSoft PDF Converter.mst" is also required. f. Close the dialog box, and then select Software Installation. The settings for the installation package will be displayed on the right side of the screen, and the component will be installed to the targeted client systems upon their restart. The installation is a "silent install" and is installed for all users on the specified computer. Software components and their instal
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Microsoft introduced a new feature in Windows XP called Fast Logon Optimization. This feature will typically log the user in quickly even off the network. This causes software installation via group policy to sometimes take many reboots to actually install managed software (you must reboot at least once after the group policy change just to refresh the policy on the local machine plus once to install the software. For more details see the following Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/tec
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Deployment - SMS server This section describes how to install software components of Scan to PC Desktop onto a client's system using SMS Server. Prerequisites A Software Distribution Point (with administrative images of the software components) A deployment target computer that is a member of a domain, site, or organizational unit. MSI 2.0 installed on the target computer. Installation order Before starting to install any component of Scan to PC Desktop, please ensure that InstallShield's
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Deployment steps Please follow the instructions below to install the components of Scan to PC Desktop appropriately. If the installer of any software component supports more than one UI languages, and a non- English installation is needed, one of the language transform files must also be specified in the command-line (Presented as below). For example, to specify a German installation, use the following transforms tag: TRANSFORMS="1031.mst" Note: To read more about Windows Langua
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8. To install the OmniPage SE 3.0, use the following command-line: MSIEXEC /i "ScanSoft OmniPage SE 3.0.msi" ALLUSERS=2 TRANSFORMS= /qb+ You can now advertise the packages to your SMS clients. Examples 1. To install the PaperPort Professional 10.0 with English user interface, use the following command-line: MSIEXEC /i "ScanSoft PaperPort 10.0.msi" ALLUSERS=2 TRANSFORMS=1033.mst /qb+ 2. To install the PaperPort Professional 10.0 with German user interface, use the following comma
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MSIEXEC /i "ScanSoft PaperPort 10.0.msi" ALLUSERS=2 TRANSFORMS=1031.mst /qb+ 11. To install the OmniPage SE 3.0 with English user interface, use the following command-line: MSIEXEC /i "ScanSoft OmniPage SE 3.0.msi" ALLUSERS=2 TRANSFORMS=1033.mst /qb+ 17 of 17
