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ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide Table of Contents Deploying ABBYY FineReader 9.0 in a LAN ....................................................................... 4 Deploying ABBYY FineReader 9.0................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Administrative installation .......................................................
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide Deploying ABBYY FineReader 9.0 in a LAN General ABBYY FineReader 9.0 can be installed and used on a local area network. The automated installation methods give you speed and flexibility when installing ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition on a local area network, as you do not have to install the program manually on each individual workstation. Deploying ABBYY FineReader 9.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, for example, allows no more than 10 simultaneous connections, allowing to run ABBYY FineReader only on 10 workstations at a time. License Administrator Station requirements 1. PC running under Microsoft® Windows® 2000 or later (to work with localized interfaces, the operating system must support the corresponding language) 2. 64 MB RAM 3. 20 MB free hard–disk space Workstation requirements 1.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide Note: ● If several users will be managing the ABBYY FineReader 9.0 licenses, they must have the License Manager utility installed on their computers. ● Each user must be a member of one of the two local groups on the server: 1. ABBYY Licensing Administrators 2. BUILTIN\Administrators You can disable user authorization in the file %programfiles%\Common Files\ABBYY\FineReader\9.00\Licensing\CE\NetworkLicenseServer.
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ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide Installing ABBYY FineReader 9.0 on Workstations Interactive installation 1. Perform ABBYY FineReader 9.0 administrative installation (see Administrative installation for details). 2. Run the setup.exe file in the administrative installation folder. 3. Follow the instructions of the setup wizard. Command line installation 1. Perform ABBYY FineReader 9.0 administrative installation (see Administrative installation for details). 2.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide Additional command–line options for silent installation /L disables automatic selection of the interface language and installs ABBYY FineReader with the interface language specified in the command line.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide ● The Publish to User and Assign to User methods are not supported. Example: Using Active Directory to deploy ABBYY FineReader 9.0 This example illustrates deployment under Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Microsoft Group Management Console installed. The program is installed on one domain computer or on a group of computers: 1. Perform administrative installation (see Administrative installation). 2.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide 6. Right–click the organized unit that contains the computer or group of computers onto which ABBYY FineReader 9.0 is to be installed. 7. On the shortcut menu, select Create and Link a GPO Here… 8. Enter a descriptive name and click OK. 9. Right–click the Group Policy object you have created and select Edit.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide 10. In the Group Policy Object Editor window, click Computer Configuration> Software Settings>Software Installation. 11. On the shortcut menu, select New/Package… 12. Provide the network path to the file ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition.msi that is located in the administrative installation folder on the server (see Administrative installation). 13. Select the Advanced deployment method. 14.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide 15. Select the interface language that will be used by ABBYY FineReader when installed on the workstations. The interface language files are located in the administrative installation folder on the server. File names and their languages: 1033.mst English 1026.mst Bulgarian 1038.mst Hungarian 1034.mst Spanish 1040.mst Italian 1062.mst Latvian 1063.mst Lithuanian 1031.mst German 1043.mst Dutch 1045.mst Polish 1046.mst Portuguese 1049.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide 2. In the SMS Administrator Console, select the Packages item. 3. In the Action menu, select New>Package. 4. In the Package Properties dialog box that opens, enter the required package properties. 5. Click the Data Source tab. 6. Make sure that the This package contains source files box is not selected and click OK. 7. In the package you have just created, select Programs. 8. On the Action menu, select New>Program.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide 9. On the General tab of the Program Properties dialog box: ● Enter a descriptive name for the program in the Name field ● Type setup.exe /q in the Command Line field ● In the Start in field, enter the path to the administrative installation folder (e.g. \\MyFileServer\Programs Distribs\ABBYY FineReader 9.0) 10.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide 11. Change the condition in the Program can run field if required and click OK. 12. You can also use the Distribute Software Wizard. To run the wizard, on the Action menu, select All Tasks>Distribute Software and follow the instructions of the wizard. Important! You cannot create Distribution Points. Using Task Scheduler To install ABBYY FineReader on workstations using Task Scheduler: 1.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide Frequently Asked Questions How can I install ABBYY FineReader 9.0 on a terminal server? The operation of ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition in terminal mode has been tested for the following configurations: ● Windows 2003 Terminal Server, Citrix Metaframe 4.0 ● Windows 2000 Terminal Server, Citrix Metaframe 3.0. Important! Only Concurrent licenses support terminal mode. 1. Perform administrative installation.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide By default, Named Pipes is used. Setting up the connection port [Licensing] ConnectionEndpointName=[port number for TCP\IP | channel name for Named Pipes] This parameter allows you to specify the number of the port for the connection protocol or the name of the channel for Named Pipes.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide 7. Reinstall ABBYY FineReader on all the workstations. For detailed instructions, see Installing ABBYY FineReader 9.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide Managing Licenses General ABBYY FineReader 9.0 License Manager is a utility specifically designed for managing ABBYY FineReader licenses. The License Manager is installed on the License Administrator Station when deploying the program in a local area network. For more information about deploying ABBYY FineReader in a LAN, see Administrative installation.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide How workstations get licenses When ABBYY FineReader is launched on a workstation, the program contacts the server and obtains a license from it. Licenses are provided in the following order: 1. The license assigned to the workstation is served to it. 2. If no license has been assigned to the workstation, a free Concurrent license is served. 3. If there are no free Concurrent licenses, a free Per Seat license is served.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide Assigning a license You can assign a license to a particular workstation. An assigned license can only be used on the workstation to which it has been assigned. To assign a license: 1. Launch the License Manager. 2. Select the desired license and click Assign… 3. In the dialog box that opens, type the name of the workstation to which you wish to assign the license.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide Recovering the status of a license (only for Per Seat licenses) If the computer hosting the License Server has been renamed or the License Server has been moved to a different computer, you may recover the statuses of the licenses. The statuses of all the licenses related to the same serial number will be recovered simultaneously.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide Group Work in a LAN ABBYY FineReader 9.0 provides tools and capabilities for processing documents over a local area network (LAN). Processing the same ABBYY FineReader document on several computers When running ABBYY FineReader over a local area network, all the program tools and capabilities are available on the workstations.
ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Corporate Edition System Administrator’s Guide Technical Support If you have any questions about how to install and use ABBYY FineReader 9.0 to which you cannot find answers in this System Administrator's Guide, please contact the ABBYY technical support service or ABBYY partners. For contact information, please refer to the "Support" section at www.abbyy.com.
