Streamline your upgrade process with the SmarTeam Silent Installation

In today's world of lean manufacturing, many companies have decided that they also need to be lean in the IT department. For this reason, many IT departments are understaffed, overworked, and under appreciated. When it is time for a minor or major SmarTeam upgrade, IT staffers find themselves hovering over machines, spending nights and weekends upgrading each client machine with the proper software. This process is tedious and error prone, causing an extreme anxiousness among IT people who want to perform the upgrade with a minimal amount of engineering downtime.

Introducing the SmarTeam Silent Install:
In the current versions of SmarTeam, Dassault has included instructions on how to install SmarTeam Client machines using a "Silent Install." The Silent Install is just a term for installing all the required software in the background. The software is installed without your direct interaction and thus is "Silent."

How does the Silent Installation Work?
Basically the Silent Install uses the standard windows installer, but passes your configuration settings to the installer in the background through a series of configuration commands. So, no matter how your SmarTeam client is configured (i.e. SolidWorks Integration, MS Word Integration), the silent install can handle it. All you have to do is configure the silent install batch file, copy your cd's to a network directory, and you are off an running.

Below is an example of a client install:

SMARTEAM R14 CLIENT SILENT INSTALL
"\\SmarTeam_CD1\SMARTEAM\setup.exe" /V"/qb+ SW_INSTALL=YES USERNAME="SmarTeamUser" COMPANYNAME="SMARTEAM" ALLUSERS=1 MAIN_INSTALLATION_TYPE="Client" SUB_INSTALLATION_TYPE="Custom" SM_LUM_LOCAL_NETWORK="Network" SM_LUM_SERVER_LOCATION="your license server" SM_SETUP_LANGUAGE="English" SM_CORE_SERVICES_SERVER="your foundation server" ADDLOCAL="SmarTeam_ClientLibrary,SmarTeamCore,SmarTeam_SDK,Smart_Scripts_
PreVersio,Smart_Scripts_PreVersio1,SmarTeam,SmarTeam_Tools,Users_Maintenance,
SmartFlow_Tools,SmarTeam_Plugins,SolidWorks_Integration,MS_Excel_Integration,
MS_Word_Integration,SmarTeam_Help,SmartFlow_Help" INSTALLDIR=\"c:\Program Files\SmarTeam""   

*Note: In the USERNAME setting, you cannot use spaces. The silent installation will not function. If you install the Solidworks Integration, you need the SW_INSTALL=YES option.

This script will install a client machine with the SolidWorks Integration and Office Integrations. Change the path to the setup.exe file, modify the license and foundation server names, and copy this into a dos prompt and you are set. There are also silent install scripts for the Service Packs and the Viewers.

Those are included below:

*Note Silent_SP.ini is just a text file stored with the following options:
[Reset_to_Default_values]
ResetValues = FALSE

Viewer 19.1 Silent Install

"SmarTeam_viewer_directory\Setup.exe" /v"/qn ALLUSERS=1 ADDLOCAL=SMARTEAM_
Viewer SM_SETUP_LANGUAGE=English"

Once you work out your directory structure and configuration options, the silent install is a very nice tool to expedite the client installation process. Please see you SmarTeam SP8 documentation for a PDF that provides more details and options for the silent installation.

For more information or help building your silent install scripts, contact your local CATI or InFlow Sales or Support Representative.

                                CATI: 888.3080.2284           InFlow: 800.875.3009