TimJing

We are a district with 22,000+ desktops. Are you going to provide the funding for HW upgrades?

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Software installation really should not ever go through AD/GP. You need some type of a client management suite like Altiris for deploy and reporting.

This installer still has issues. We are still get the self healing at the log in. It's alot shorter than the previous issue, but still an annoyance.

I have had it running for a few days now. It is pretty darn smooth for a MS beta product. Everything seems to work smoothly, guess we shall see how the Windows Server Tool support is when the official version comes out. I however disagree with the 64 bit only version release. I am running it on a Dell 755 in 32 bit mode with 2 gigs of ram. The performance is much faster than a Vista machine running the same HW. Backward compatibility is MS's game, you should not have to have the latest and greatest HW just to run an os.

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When you run the install.exe, you should be able to find the MSI and in your local temp folder. Copy the contents of the folder to a network share, and create a Transform file for that MSI. This works for JDK 6.1.

In our lab testing we hav found that this suite will install sometimes on machines with 512 megs of ram when ran in silent mode. But from Media you would get a "Not enough Memory" error. The method to deploy is: Copy the Instlal XMl that you configured to a local folder first. Then run the silent installer in a batch file. "\\ServerName\Adobe Creative Suites 3\Setup.exe" --mode=silent --deploymentFile="C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\install.xml" --skimProcessCheck=1

It is much better to repackage to an EXE rather than an MSI. (For self healing purposes) However, I would not do sw deployments through GP unless there is only a few hundred machines in your OU. As for Office 2007, it comes with a nifty automatic deployment tool, maybe you can call it with a batch file in either AD, or let the users self install from a self serve folder on the network.

You can also goto the Property of that Unknown device under the Details Tab. Look for PCI]VEn_14E4&Dev167B The 14E4 is the vendor name of that HW and 167B is the device ID. So if I were to Google "14E4 167B" You can see it shows up as a Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet device.

We have a workable solution thats being deployed to our live environment. There are a few workarounds you have to make on top of the MSI/MST install. The MSI version of the Notebook installer used is 10.0.126, and this package will upgrade existing SB 9.7 which is what we have in our environment. 1. Copy the installer MSI locally, the msi does not create local installer, so it does not play well when self healing is invoked. 2. Copy Essentials for Educator folder from a existing install to this directory after the Notebook Installer Completes.(This might be able to be added to the MST, we are using a batch file to run the copy) "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SMART Technologies\Lesson Activity Toolkit\" 3. Delete this shortcut to disable startup toolbar. "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\SMART Board Tools.lnk"

Just an FYI, the newest version on Smart's site works for installing the Essentials for Educator, but it still leaves out The Lesson Activity Toolkit. Smart Tech thinks this might be added as a feature for deployment with SP1(End of July).

After you double click the installer exe, it will extract the files to your %username%\temp. You can then use the MSI to deploy. You might want to read the thread in entirety before deciding to deploy now.

A revised installer for Smart Notebook 10 have not been posted yet.

I had to figure out something for a training session. Some people dont care if the product works or not.

This is a run around until Smart Tech get the Network Gallery deploy resolved in their installer. If you really need to get this work there is a way to get the Gallery installed. Make a full installation and either download all the gallery items from the internet or use the Essentials DL link provided above. Verify you have all the Essentials Gallery items in Notebook. Copy the Folder Essentials for Educators from C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\SMART Technologies\ To a network location And use batch file or script to copy this Folder to the same folder on any machine you load SmartNotebook 10. It will populate that machine with all those Gallery Items.

Thats not exactly true. Smart Tech team are still working on the Gallery issues as of today. Also if you extract the MSI and install, you might want to A: install from a share the users will have rights to. or B: copy the msi files locally so it's available for self healing.

It's good for planning lessons. We have alot of teachers that uses it without the Smartboard. As for the installer, no good news right now even with a beta copy of the SmartNotebook installer. Everything installs fine except the additional Gallery items. Pretty much everytime you specify a network location for the gallery items, you end up with only 206 items total after the install completes. Looks like a long process to get this fixed.

Just AN FYI There seems to be some issues they might be having with the Activation engine, a new release is supposed to come out on the 15th. Not sure if that will address the Gallery install issues.

Having some problems installing it here as well. First, if I use the Install Manager to generate the MST, the program will install in default settings, but takes forever to DL all the gallery files. If I set the Gallery path, I get Buffer over flow error on the MSIEXEC. It allows me to continue, but prompts for which Gallery files to install(Read, no longer a silent install).

We use the HP 5750 series ADM/ATI machines. The solution we found was by using the ATI reference catalyst drivers instead of the HP website drivers. This resolved alot of our ATIDVAG and blue screen freezing issues with Windows XP OS.

I dont think you can call the MSI's directly in Office 2007.

What ever script you use to deploy the application you can also delete that shortcut. I never looked into if you can deploy just parts of the Smart Board application.

Just delete the shortcut from the Allusers Start menu to not allow the side bar to start up.

The following method worked for me for PS Elements 3. Maybe it will help you. Preparation: DL Orca from MS. Browse the PS3 CD and copy the PS 3 folder(FOlder contain the PS3 MSI file) to your network install directory. Setup silent install: Use Orca to open the MSI. Transform -> New Transforms Set a SERIALNUMBER property in Property and add the serial # for the value Click Transform - > Generate Transforms. Test install: Create a batch file that calls your msi with the Transforms.