CUSTOMTOOLS Administrative Installation

You can install CUSTOMTOOLS as an administrative image which is pre-installed to the desired location in the local network where the client workstations could install CUSTOMTOOLS easily in environment that have several workstations.

The administrative installation of CUSTOMTOOLS work so that the administrative image is deployed into a network location available for the necessary client workstations. Then the desired CUSTOMTOOLS client workstations could run the CUSTOMTOOLS installation from the network location where the administrative image was deployed to by the environment administrator.



Making the Administrative Image:

The administrative image for CUSTOMTOOLS installation could be done in a CUSTOMTOOLS environment server workstation or, it could be done in any client workstation of the CUSTOMTOOLS environment. In any case, please ensure that you create an administrative image into a network location which is accessible from all the necessary client workstations.

The administrative image could be created through the Windows command prompt. In command prompt navigate to folder where your CUSTOMTOOLS installer is located at. Then type one of the following commands based on the operating system type to launch the CUSTOMTOOLS administrative installation wizard:

64-bit CUSTOMTOOLS.201x.SPx.64bit.exe /a

Commands above launches an installer used to setup the following things related to the CUSTOMTOOLS client installations:

User information The Windows user information used to register the CUSTOMTOOLS in the local workstation.
Serial number Your CUSTOMTOOLS serial number.
Database server A server machine and the SQL Server instance name where the CUSTOMTOOLS database is located at.
Database server login information Login information used to login to the SQL Server where the CUSTOMTOOLS database is located at.
Destination path Destination path where the administrative image is used to be created in. Before you continue the administrative image creation, make sure that the network location where the administrative image is about to be created in, is accessible from all the necessary client workstations.


Where to find the command prompt:

Please note that the following instructions works when you have already located your CUSTOMTOOLS installation media in the Windows Command Prompt.

The CUSTOMTOOLS installer is located in the root folder of an installation media.

Info NOTE: You need to start the Windows command line as an Administrator in order to be able to use the CUSTOMTOOLS command line installer.

Open the Start menu and type cmd into the Search programs and files box. The cmd.exe appars into the list. Then, right-click the cmd.exe and select Run as Administrator as shown in the following screenshot.

StartMenu




Related Topics

Conventional installation of CUSTOMTOOLS using the command line
CUSTOMTOOLS Uninstallation from the command line

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