Installation guide

PC-Duo Deployment Tool

 “Reports”, for viewing results of product deployment activities via the Deployment Tool

The general process for loading and distributing software via the Deployment Tool is

described in the results pane:

There are five simple steps to deploying PC-Duo software:

1 Inform the Deployment Tool where the product installation image (i.e. HOST.MSI) you

wish to use is. Because the Deployment Tool is not tied to a specific release of PC-Duo,

you must have a copy of the version of PC-Duo you wish to deploy either on the local

computer, or on a network share.

2 Create a product configuration, customizing the PC-Duo Host or PC-Duo Master

settings according to your environment. All of the Host settings are configurable at install

time; in addition, installation-time information like User Name, Organization, and License

Key can be specified as well.

3a Scan the network for domains and workgroups, then scan a domain or workgroup for

computers. This allows the Deployment Tool to remember information about each

computer that it gets details on, including what version of PC-Duo software is installed on

that computer, and whether we have access to deploy software to it. Note that unlike the

Windows Explorer, the PC-Duo Deployment Tool does not automatically refresh the

"Network Places" collection; you need to manually refresh this list.

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3b Use Active Directory to locate domains, organizational units and computers. This

allows the Deployment Tool to remember information about each computer that it gets

details on, including what version of PC-Duo software is installed on that computer, and

whether we have access to deploy software to it. As with "Network Places", the PC-Duo

Deployment Tool does not automatically refresh the "Active Directory" collection; you

need to manually refresh this list.

4 Having completed step 3a or 3b, you're almost ready to deploy PC-Duo software.

Right-click on a domain or workgroup name under Network Places, and pick Refresh

Computer List, in order to enumerate the computers in the domain or workgroup. Or

right-click on a domain under Active Directory and pick Refresh Organizational Units

and Computers to enumerate the domain. Select the domain, workgroup, or org unit,

select one or more computers in the list in the result pane, then right-click and pick Install

Software... to begin the software deployment process.

5 The results of each Deployment Tool task will be available in a report under the

Reports node.

NOTE: If the Deployment Tool cannot find the redistributable MSXML6 system

component, an error message will appear and the navigation tree will be restricted to the

single root node. In this case, you must install MSXML6 and restart the Deployment Tool.

See http://www.microsoft.com for more information about the redistributable msxml6.msi

package.