Roaming Computing System (Windows Edition) 3.1
Workstation Installation Instructions - Major Proprietary Applications
Major proprietary / commercial applications that are likely to only be required on particular workstations, and few at that, are best installed manually from CD/DVD. This document describes per-workstation installation and configuration of various major proprietary applications.
Installation
Quickbooks
Install on any accounts workstations from CD
Install update
Register the program
Co-operative Bank Financial Director
Install on an accounts workstation from CD
Install whilst speaking with the bank
Install update
Adobe Creative Suite
Install on workstation
Install Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat etcetera
Install updates
Register the program
Photoshop 7.0
- Install Photoshop 7.0 on workstation
- Choose Custom
- Select Photoshop Program Files
- Select Shared Plug-ins
- Select Photoshop Only Plug-ins
- Select ImageReady Only Plug-ins
- De-select Samples
- Select Preset Libraries
- Select Helpers
- Select Help
- Select Adobe Online (can't change it anyway)
- Select Adobe Type Support (can't change it anyway)
- Select ICC profiles (can't change it anyway)
- File type associations to change: Photoshop raw data (RAW) select for 'PS'
- Run it
- Set 'primary Scratch' to E:\%USERNAME%\photoshop?
- Install update - Run Photoshop 7.01 update
InDesign (upgrade edition)
Install on workstation
Install update
Register the program
Dreamweaver
Install from CD
Install update
Register the program
RefsBase
- Login as winadmin
- If the oeprating system hasn't been setup using AutoPatcher, such as with our current Windows XP setup, then make sure .NET 2.0 is installed
- ? how do we get the refsbase shortcut now? or first run it from the server to get it installed locally?
- Run RefsBase using the desktop shortcut, it will install program files locally
- Enable write access for Users to the Refsbase program directory so settings files can be edited and new program versions installed: TWEAK: B → X
- If this system has had Outlook Express completely removed you need to re-install cdosys.dll
by copying it from S: [we should instead keep it in windows-admin] to %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32;
then register it using
regsvr32 "%WINDIR%\system32\cdosys.dll" /s.
Configuration
Microsoft Office 97
Elevate the user's privileges temporarily:
net rpc group addmem "Domain Admins" <username> -U winadmin
Run the installer to configure it for both the user and for the workstation
- on the server P:\MSOffice\Setup.exe
- Enter the product key
- Choose 'Run from network server'
- The installer gives error messages about not all network resources being available
- Windows XP additionally has the error message: "HTMLMARQ.OCX was unable to register itself in the system registry" and then says the setup was not completed successfully. In this case you can only run Microsoft Office 97 direct from P:.
Slacken permissions for spell and grammer checker to work: TWEAK: B → Y
Remove temporary permissions elevation:
net rpc group delmem "Domain Admins" <username> -U winadmin