Xerox Scan to PC Desktop Professional v7.1 Network Install Guide

Version 7.1

Scan to PC Desktop v7.1 Network Installation Guide Document version 2.0

This document provides instructions for installing the software associated with Scan to PC Desktop in a network environment.

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Scan to PC Desktop v7.1

Network Installation Guide

Table of contents

Scan to PC Desktop v7.1 Network Installation Guide............................................................. 3

Table of contents.......................................................................................................................3

Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 4

Scan to PC Desktop software components...............................................................................5

Windows 2000/2003 Server with Active Directory Support....................................................6

Systems Management Server Support .....................................................................................7

Creating administrative images................................................................................................8

Creating administrative images of the components.................................................................. 8

Deployment - Active Directory...............................................................................................10

Prerequisites..........................................................................................................................10

Installation order...................................................................................................................10

Deployment steps..................................................................................................................11

Deployment - SMS server.......................................................................................................14

Prerequisites..........................................................................................................................14

Installation order...................................................................................................................14

Deployment steps..................................................................................................................15

Examples ..............................................................................................................................16

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Introduction

This guide provides instructions for installing the software associated with Scan to PC Desktop in a network environment.

Targeted users are administrators, Information Technology specialists or programmers who set up or perform network installations. It assumes the reader is familiar with Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server with Active Directory or with Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS), in addition to program package setup, advertising and distribution.

Network installation enables a network administrator to manage and distribute software applications without the need to visit each client system.

First administrative images of the applications (the components of Scan to PC Desktop) should be created on the server. Then the server should be configured to automatically "push" the applications onto the client machines.

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Scan to PC Desktop software components

Scan to PC Desktop is delivered in two CD-ROM variants: Special Edition and Professional Edition.

These two editions of Scan to PC Desktop comprise different software products from ScanSoft. All the installers of these software components support MSI (Windows Installer-based) distribution.

Software components for Special Edition CD-ROM:

Software component

1 PaperPort 10.0 SE 2 OmniPage SE 3.0 3 Image Retriever 5.2 SE

Software components for Professional Edition CD-ROM:

Software component

1 PaperPort Professional 10.0 2 OmniPage Pro 14.0 Office 3 Image Retriever 5.2 Pro 4 PDF Create! 2.0 5 PDF Converter 1.3

Any combination of the products on the CD-ROMs can be installed under the following limitations:

1.) To install Image Retriever, you must install PaperPort first.

2.) To ensure full functionality of PaperPort Pro, PDF Create! 2.0 must also be installed.

You can create as many administrative images on a network location as many software components Scan to PC Desktop includes.

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Windows 2000/2003 Server with Active Directory Support

Active Directory is a feature of Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2003 Server. Group Policy, a component of Active Directory, includes a Software Installation snap-in that enables an administrator to create a network installation. The administrator can use this feature to install software to Windows 2000 and Windows XP clients only. The snap-in cannot be used to install software to clients with older versions of the Windows operating system.

In general, Active Directory supports three main installation scenarios: Publish to Users, Assign

to Users, and Assign to Computers. The software components of Scan to PC Desktop support the Assign to Computers scenario only. This will successfully install the software on next system

reboot.

Installation can be delayed on Windows XP clients when the administrator enables logon optimization for group policy: for this type of installation, an entry can be viewed in the event log after the first reboot. The installation takes place silently, and the software is installed for all users of the given computer. The screenshot above illustrates this case.

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