Building an MSI for SmartNotebook

[nicholab]

Hi. How do I go about building a MSI for SmartNotebook? For the main software I just took the MSI out of %temp%. I have failed once using the RM tools and it was bigger that the full MSI. I just what an MSI of the SmartNotebook software to go in offices for preparing lessons.

[Norphy]

You can download a deployable MSI straight from the SmartTech website. It's called the "SMART Board software 9.5 for system administrators - Windows operating system", available here

[eean]

Are you talking about the Gallery, or the actual notebook software? If it's the notebook software, then see above.

If it's the gallery, then it can be a little more complicated. Smart have an administrator's guide, which details command lines for the gallery - there's no MSI for it. So I made a MSI that just runs the executable command. If you want, I can post the commands I used and the MSI tomorrow.

 

Alternatively, you can probably do it an even easier way (I didn't do it this way because I didn't realise at the time!):

1. Make a MSI that contains all the gallery (put it in program files or something)

2. Make the MSI add/change the following reg fragment (I've exported this from the registry, so you can either copy it into a text file and import it or do it manually but don't use double slashes in the file names.)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SMART Technologies Inc.\Gallery\TeamContent\gallery.smarttech.com]
"ImsManifestXml"="C:\\Program Files\\SMART Board Software\\Essentials for Educators\\imsmanifest.xml"
"MetadataXml"=""
"AppPath"=""
"Args"=""
"Enabled"=dword:00000000

Where the IMSmanifestxml value is the location of your gallery.

[enjay]

If it's the gallery, then it can be a little more complicated. Smart have an administrator's guide, which details command lines for the gallery - there's no MSI for it.

I edited SMART's MSI to say that the Gallery was on a shared network drive - that saves having a truly silly sized MSI which takes an age and a day to install. It also makes for much easier editing/updating of the Gallery too. IIRC, it was as simple as changing one registry key.

[nicholab]

I what the Notebook only not the full install how do I edit the full MSI to do this?

[enjay]

The MSI in the SMART Notebook for Administrators (or whatever it's called) is just Notebook, the Gallery is a separate download.

[nicholab]

Where did you get that I can only find Smart for administrators.

[enjay]

http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/Downloads/SBS/SBSv95Win.htm

Select "SMART Board software 9.5 for system administrators - Windows operating system"

 

That's Notebook; the separate Essentials for Educators is what used to be called Gallery.