tosca925 Posted February 5, 2008 Posted February 5, 2008 We have just had 5 new Smartboards installed. Does anyone know if this version is deployable via GPO? Also what about the resources cd? Can this be deployed ? What do you do with this?
Geoff Posted February 5, 2008 Posted February 5, 2008 If you go to the Smarttech site, along with the normal downloads, there is a version for 'system administrators'. If you decompress this, you'll find an MSI. This will deploy fine. You might also want to get the gallery file too. 1
TechMonkey Posted February 6, 2008 Posted February 6, 2008 Tip for the Gallery. Install it and then pull the reg keys created. This allows you to put the files for the gallery anywhere (a shared server or example) and set a client to point at them. The same can be done with the Activity Toolkit. 1
Kyle Posted February 6, 2008 Posted February 6, 2008 Tip for the Gallery. Install it and then pull the reg keys created. This allows you to put the files for the gallery anywhere (a shared server or example) and set a client to point at them. The same can be done with the Activity Toolkit. I like th esound of this, could you explain in a little more detail?
TechMonkey Posted February 6, 2008 Posted February 6, 2008 Well I installed the gallery System Administrators package from the SMART site to a clean machine and then copied the files created to a public folder on our servers. The registry keys are [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SMART Technologies Inc.\Gallery\TeamContent\gallery.smarttech.com] "Args"=-configuration "C:\Program Files\Common Files\SMART Technologies Inc\Gallery\Configurations\SMART Technologies Inc\SMART Essentials for Educators"" "MetadataXml"="C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\SMART Technologies Inc\\Gallery\\Configurations\\SMART Technologies Inc\\SMART Essentials for Educators\\metadata.xml" "ImsManifestXml"="P:\\Smart Gallery\\imsmanifest.xml" "Enabled"=dword:00000000 "AppPath"="C:/Program Files/Common Files/SMART Technologies Inc/SMART Product Update/gallery setup.exe" Change the Bold line to the location you copied to. As said in the Activity Toolkit thread I started, not sure if all of these are needed, some even point to nothingness but as it was installed I kept it. Will probably test and tidy at some point. I created this reg key as an MSI and put it round all the necessary stations. I have also included the Toolkit keys so it all gets allocated in one heap. Thread for that is here. Yell if more help or clarification wanted. 1
Andi Posted February 6, 2008 Posted February 6, 2008 I did something similar to the above. Deployed the smartboard software and also the smart essentials for educators packages using the msi created by running the administrative install. These both worked great, then used a startup script to register the gallery's location with the workstation. "C:\Program Files\Common Files\SMART Technologies Inc\smart product update\gallery setup.exe" --register -remote /destination "\\server\share\Smartboard Galleries" /configuration "C:\Program Files\Common Files\SMART Technologies Inc\smart product update\SMARTEssentials.gallerycollection" Now all I need to do is work out a way so that the script doesn't run everytime the machine is booted. 1
TechMonkey Posted February 6, 2008 Posted February 6, 2008 I did something similar to the above. Deployed the smartboard software and also the smart essentials for educators packages using the msi created by running the administrative install. These both worked great, then used a startup script to register the gallery's location with the workstation. "C:\Program Files\Common Files\SMART Technologies Inc\smart product update\gallery setup.exe" --register -remote /destination "\\server\share\Smartboard Galleries" /configuration "C:\Program Files\Common Files\SMART Technologies Inc\smart product update\SMARTEssentials.gallerycollection" Now all I need to do is work out a way so that the script doesn't run everytime the machine is booted. are you using MSI's? If so put the resulting registry changes from the script into one and allocate that & all is good. You could even set it as a user/machine reg frag if you wanted as it shouldn't cause a problem to those without SMART software. 2
Andi Posted February 6, 2008 Posted February 6, 2008 Can I compare the registry before and after? I seem to remember doing that years ago, but can't remember how. Or is the registry key going to be the same as the one you posted earlier in the thread? 1
Andi Posted February 6, 2008 Posted February 6, 2008 Also, how does everyone get around the location of the users My Content folder? By default it is in their local appdata folder, but this doesn't help if they roam around the place. The document tells us how to logon to the notebook software in admin mode and alter the location, but I don't fancy doing that manually on all the smartboard stations we have here.
Andi Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 OK this is my reply from smarttech about changing the default My content folder. "The registry file that contains the location of “MY content” is {HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SMART Technologies Inc.\Gallery} Change the DefaultManifest string to the desired location." How can I go about scripting a registry poke to set this at user logon? I've tried doing it with a login script calling the following batch file but it doesn't seem to be working. regedit.exe /s smartboardmycontent.reg
apeo Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 When you say it doesnt work.. do you mean the change is made in reg but doesnt do what its suppose to or it doesnt make the change in reg? Im guessing the later and if that is the case, you want to check what rights you have given your users and you may want to loosen it to enable you to get the script working.
farmerste Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 i would say that i have always found smarboard software DEPLOREABLE Usual big company i'm afraid, not a clue how their software is actually used in education, and don't want to know about any problems either.
Andi Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 I think it's they're getting better to be honest.
contink Posted February 19, 2008 Posted February 19, 2008 OK this is my reply from smarttech about changing the default My content folder. "The registry file that contains the location of “MY content” is {HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SMART Technologies Inc.\Gallery} Change the DefaultManifest string to the desired location." How can I go about scripting a registry poke to set this at user logon? I've tried doing it with a login script calling the following batch file but it doesn't seem to be working. regedit.exe /s smartboardmycontent.reg I've got a login script on my PC at home which I'll post up tonight when I get back there (assuming I manage to get out of here of course ) 1
contink Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 Did you manage to get home yesterday Contink? LOL... whoops... I did, but my brain got left behind (long day!).. Here you go. '********************************************* '* smartboard-gallery.vbs '* '* $Author: martin $ '* $Date: 2007-06-13 22:00:29 +0100 (Wed, 13 Jun 2007) $ '* $Revision: 10 $ '* '* '* Set the server hosted gallery location '* for Smartboard notebook gallery '********************************************* On Error Resume Next Dim WshShell Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") key2 = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SMART Technologies Inc.\Gallery\DefaultManifest" val2 = "\\server\appshare\Smartboard\imsmanifest.xml" WshShell.RegWrite key2, val2 The trick is to locate the imsmanifest.xml file in the gallery share and set your val2 path accordingly. I'm pretty sure that gets run as a user logon script but I might be wrong... 1
Andi Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 That looks excellent thanks. Does that re-route the My content folder or the shared galleries?
contink Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 (edited) That looks excellent thanks. Does that re-route the My content folder or the shared galleries? IIRC it's the shared gallery and not your actual content folder... I'm not on site today so I can't check but once you've tried it you should see for yourself. EDIT: Doh!.. I've just re-read your original post and realised I went off on a tangent *beats head about self*. That script handles the shared content (particularly useful if you've installed the gallery on the server) but given what you wanted to do originally you should be able to use the code to botch together something that handles your own particular needs fairly easily... Edited February 20, 2008 by contink 1
K.C.Leblanc Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 One tip, after you've uploaded the gallery content to a folder on the server make it read only (even for administrators). Other wise you'll find your clipart will disappear if you uninstall Smartboard on a workstation.
Andi Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 IIRC it's the shared gallery and not your actual content folder... I'm not on site today so I can't check but once you've tried it you should see for yourself. EDIT: Doh!.. I've just re-read your original post and realised I went off on a tangent *beats head about self*. That script handles the shared content (particularly useful if you've installed the gallery on the server) but given what you wanted to do originally you should be able to use the code to botch together something that handles your own particular needs fairly easily... Yes I've already sorted the shared gallery deployment but wanted to re-route the My Content folder. I'll see if I can tweak your script and report back. Thanks.
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