WikusVanDeMerwe

Well, 23 pages of people having similar issues to me is actually quite re-assuring... Being generally brave we have our Invigilator software running on a Laptop... The workstations (pc's and laptops) will find the Invigilator and commence their testing (assuming you manually input the hostname) alas though the last set of exams we ran (although claiming to be complete and nothing complained once) did not upload their results to the pearson servers so someone's going to have to manually upload the file extracted from the client via some other "Secure Gateway" which Pearson tout... I'm not exactly filled with confidence. Quite frankly the POP software has turned into a running joke around here and I'm busy collecting evidence to launch some devilishly worded email at the POP inbox as this 'online testing' software is anything but. This is not only a step backwards, it's an endurance marathon backwards and it makes me wonder if Pearson even have any tech's to test this junk out before releasing it. What annoys me more than anything else about the whole process is that our students will go away from our business with the impression that we can't run an exam (and when we can it doesn't work). Edit: Just had someone pop (see what I did there?) over and inform me we've got 8 users who all need to sit an exam on laptops, so that'll be 9 laptops all in running this stuff, what fun, I can't wait, deep joy (and so on).

Well as luck would have it my attempted install today has failed due to some nasty error the msi spits out which I'm having to submit a support ticket over. It's most annoying (more annoying that I'm willing to type about) as I've had nothing but trouble in the past with this software. The supposed benefits are orbiting around more monitoring functionality and better control systems as to what to ignore, I cannot verify any of this yet though as the swine won't deploy. It is a real shame because the XP version worked very well, after that it all went downhill. I will reply to this thread if I manage to get this package running and let you know how it's performing.

The short answer is: yes It requires 64bit java if installing onto a 64 bit machine. But wait there's more! It also needs MS Visual C++ Redist for Visual Studio 2013 update (for 64 bit systems it needs the 32 and 64 bit packages installed) .NET 4 Also you need to make some changes to your firewall settings, your AV and it appears to want to have Full Control perms on a folder sitting on the root of the OS drive which I find a little disconcerting. I have to roll this out across our network in the near future.