XMap® 7 Administration Guide
Last updated on 12/13/2009
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Table of Contents
XMAP® 7 ADMINISTRATION GUIDE ............................................................................ 1
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 5
DEPLOYING XMAP 7 USING ACTIVE DIRECTORY .................................................. 22
DISTRIBUTING A PATCH USING ACTIVE DIRECTORY GPO .................................. 32
DEPLOYING XMAP 7 USING SMS .............................................................................. 36
DISTRIBUTING A PATCH USING SMS ....................................................................... 58
XMAP 7 NETWORK AND SILENT INSTALLS ............................................................ 77
TROUBLESHOOTING .................................................................................................. 85
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ...................................................................................... 86
ADDING EXISTING DATABASE CONNECTIONS ...................................................... 88
MIGRATING LAYERS TO NEW DATABASES ............................................................ 89
DATABASE ADMINISTRATION USING DATABASE MANAGER .............................. 93
UPDATING LAYERS MAINTAINED IN ANOTHER GIS .............................................. 97
IMPORTING FROM ARCSDE .................................................................................... 102
USING CLASSIFICATION TEMPLATES ................................................................... 104
Introduction
Introduction
This document contains information regarding XMap® 7 installation and tasks at the administrative level.
Content may evolve over time as additional information is provided or new tasks are added. This
document is not intended to preclude the need of more detailed process descriptions that may be found in
the XMap Help documentation. Please contact DeLorme Professional Sales if you are unable to address
a particular XMap related issue.
SECURITY NOTE
The XMap installation may temporarily change local security policies during the installation process. To
restore the security policies back to their original settings, reboot after installing XMap. If you are
scanning the computer with a Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) compliance tool after installing
XMap, then reboot before running the compliance tool to ensure that the security policies have been set
back to their original states.
Installation Prerequisites
When installing XMap with the MSI instead of the bootstrapper, which is the case when installing with
Active Directory or SMS, you must install prerequisites before you install XMap. Contact DeLorme
Professional Sales to get a copy of the Prerequisites Installer.
There are two ways that you can deploy the prerequisites. You can choose which method you want to
use based on your business practices.
• Install the prerequisites using SMS. These instructions are described in the Deploying XMap 7
Using SMS
• Install the prerequisites using Active Directory. The Install Prerequisites Using Active Directory
section describes how to install the prerequisites for Active Directory. This option is a little more
complex as the prerequisites have to be installed through a startup script. Because of the
sequencing of startup scripts after software distribution in Active Directory, you have to perform a
step to check the installation of the prerequisites on the client computers before implementing the
instructions for installing XMap using Active Directory.
SMS or another software distribution system with similar capabilities is the most robust and easiest way to
deploy the prerequisites and application. If you have that available, you should use it.
section.
Prepare for Installing the Prerequisites
Save the prerequisite installer to a network share that already exists or create a new network share that is
accessible to all of the client computers that you want to distribute XMap to. Ensure that the Everyone
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user group has read permissions for the folder and for the share as the prerequisite installer will run in
each client computer’s system context.
Using RunPrerequisites.vbs
Summary
Notes
This script installs or checks the prerequisites for XMap. The script is provided in the root of
prerequisite installation folder. It can be used as a startup script through Active Directory. This
script either installs the prerequisites or checks to see if the prerequisites are installed, depending
on the command line parameters passed in.
The prerequisites will install Windows Installer 4.5 so that SQL Server 2008 Express can install.
If you do not have Windows Installer 4.5 installed, then the computer will reboot after the
Windows Installer 4.5 installation package executes. If you are running the RunPrere quisites.vbs
by hand and not part of a startup script, then you will have to execute RunPrerequisites.vbs again
after the computer has rebooted to complete the install of the prerequisites.
Usage
RunPrerequisites.vbs /installPath:""<setup path>"" /computer:[computer
name] /no_sql_server /norestart
<setup path> := This is the path to the installation program, setup.exe in the root of the
prerequisite installation folder. If installing to multiple remote computers the installation
folder should be placed in a network share that has read and execute permissions for the
Everyone group.
/computer:[computer name] := This is an optional parameter If provided, then the
prerequisites will not be installed. This is the name of the computer on which to check the
prerequisite installation. If the prerequisites are installed on the given computer, then the
script sets the ERRORLEVEL environment variable to 0. If the prerequisites are not
installed, the script sets the ERRORLEVEL environment variable to 1. Run the script
using this parameter for each remote client computer. Running the script for each client
computer will ensure the prerequisites are installed before starting the XMap installation.
/no_sql_server := This is an optional parameter. If provided, then SQL server will not
be installed.
/norestart := This is a semi-optional parameter. If provided the setup will not reboot
and restart the setup. This option is required for distributing via Active Directory.
/boot_only := This is an optional parameter. The setup will only reboot the computer
but will not restart the setup on reboot. This option is used for SMS distributions.
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Example
Check the prerequisite installation on a remote computer:
RunPrerequisites.vbs /installPath:
”\\myserver\xmap_prerequisites\Setup.exe” /computer:lois
After running either command, check the ERRORLEVEL property. If it is 0, then the prerequisites are
installed; if it is 1, then they are not installed.
Install Prerequisites Using Active Directory
1) It may be useful to get a tool such as psexec that you can use to run gpupdate and/or restart the
Optionally, you can prefix the RunPrerequisites.vbs with cscript,
e.g. cscript RunPrerequisites.vbs, to see the command line output of the script,
otherwise it will run silently.
client computers. You should use this or a similar tool so you don’t have to go to each computer to
force an update or ask your users to force an update of group policies. Install the tool and add its path
to the system path variable so you can access it easily from the command line. You won’t need this
tool until the last step, but you should get it beforehand and have it installed and ready to go. This tool
has a very simple installation; just download the compressed file and unpack it to where you want to
run it from. Add the path to the uncompressed folder to your system path to make it easy to use.
2) Save the prerequisite installer to a network share that is accessible to all the client computers on
which you want to install prerequisites. See Installation Prerequisites
3) If you are running the script on many computers, it is easier to add all the computers to which you
want to install the prerequisites to a computer group using the Active Directory Users and Computers
tool on your Active directory server before you implement this step.
The following optional steps show how to create a computer group using the Active Directory Users
and Computers tool.
a) Locate the Active Directory Users and Computers tool in the Control Panel’s Administrative Tools
and start the program.
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