Network Install Setup Guide

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3. Save the changes you have made to Assisted Install.txt as plain text.
1 Windows: Assisted Install.txt and Setup.exe must be in the Files folder during installation.
1 OS X: Assisted Install.txt must be in the same folder as the FileMaker Server 13 installer
application during installation.
How users perform an assisted installation
To install FileMaker Server, instruct users to mount the volume containing the installation files,
then double-click Setup.exe (Windows) or the FileMaker
Server 13 installer application (OS X).
Windows: Instruct users who see the Open File – Security Warning dialog box to click Run to
continue installing.
If the file, Assisted Install.txt, is present in the same folder as the installer, the installer uses
information in it during installation. If this file is not present or is incomplete, users have to supply
required information.
After installation is complete, users must use the Deployment assistant to set up their single- or
multiple-machine deployments of FileMaker Server. In the Assisted
Install.txt file, you can specify
whether the Deployment assistant starts automatically after installation. If you choose to suppress
starting the Deployment assistant, then instruct users to go to the Admin Console Login Page. The
Deployment assistant starts automatically.
Windows: A shortcut pointing to the Admin Console login page is created in Start menu > All
Programs
> FileMaker Server (or Start menu > Programs > FileMaker Server) on the master
machine. On Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, the shortcut is available on the Windows Start
screen.
OS X: An alias pointing to the Admin Console login page is created on the desktop of the master
machine.
Notes
1 To install FileMaker Server, users must have administrator privileges.
1 In Windows, you can choose the language displayed in the installer. In OS X, the installer
displays in the same language as the current OS X system language. In Windows and OS X,
the language that users see when they use FileMaker Server Admin Console is the same as
the language of the base OS installation on the master machine.
About silent assisted installations (Windows)
During a silent (unattended) installation, user interaction with the FileMaker Server installer is kept
to a minimum. Required installation information is read from the personalization file,
Assisted
Install.txt, and installation screens are not displayed.
There are two ways to perform a silent installation. Users can:
1 Double-click the Setup.exe file located on the mounted volume. This method requires that you
modify the Setup.ini file. For more information, see the next section.
1 Type the installation command and applicable options at the command line. For more
information see “Performing a silent installation using the command line (Windows)” on page 8.