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KB: Central Installation of harmon.ie

This feature is available in harmon.ie Enterprise Edition only.

This article explains the steps required to remotely install harmon.ie for SharePoint, Enterprise Edition, via Active Directory, and other desktop management software. See the customizing the installation section below to learn how to deploy harmon.ie for a specific user or to a specific directory. To deploy a set of SharePoint sites in harmon.ie, see the knowledge base article Provisioning harmon.ie for SharePoint.

To get the harmon.ie for SharePoint, Enterprise Edition, please visit Go Enterprise page and fill out the form or contact sales@harmon.ie.

Before harmon.ie for SharePoint can be to automatically distributed to client computers or specific users, make sure that:

  • The client computer is connected to the domain.
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later is installed on the client machine.

To install harmon.ie for SharePoint on a remote client computer, follow these steps:

  1. Create a Group Policy Object in your domain properties using Active Directory on the server, which will be used to remotely install harmon.ie. In the Security tab of the Group Policy Object's properties, select the groups that you want to install harmon.ie to.
  2. In the console tree, open your domain's properties, and from the Group Policy tab, edit the Group Policy Object you created above.
  3. Right-click Computer Configuration > Software Settings > Software Installation and select New > Package.
  4. In the Open dialog box, enter the UNC path to the harmon.ie for SharePoint, Enterprise Edition, installation file on a shared network folder. Do not use the Browse button to access the location.
  5. From the Deployment tab, set Deployment type to Assigned, set Installation user interface options to Basic and click OK.
  6. Close the Group Policy snap-in, click OK, and then quit the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.
  7. When the client computer starts, the managed software package is automatically installed.

More details on how to deploy software using Active Directory are available in the Microsoft knowledge base article How to use Group Policy to remotely install software in Windows Server 2003.

Note:

  • When installing, you must use the Basic user interface option.
  • You cannot redeploy harmon.ie. To upgrade the version you need to use the update tab in Active Directory.
  • To install harmon.ie for specific users on a computer, you need to edit the MSI package prior to remote installation. Follow the instructions in the customizing the installation section below.

Customizing the installation

To customize the harmon.ie for SharePoint installation to use a different directory, or to be deployed for specific users:

  1. Install Orca.
  2. Open the harmon.ie for SharePoint, Enterprise Edition, MSI package with Orca.
  3. Set the installation folder in the MSI package in Tables > CustomAction > Actions > DIRCA_TARGETDIR. If you need to deploy harmon.ie to specific users you should set the installation folder to "[LocalAppDataFolder][Manufacturer][ProductName]". This changes the installation folder from "C:\Program Files\Mainsoft\harmonie for SharePoint\" to a specific user location "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Mainsoft\harmonie for SharePoint\"
  4. Save the changes to the MSI package.
  5. Follow the steps described in the Microsoft knowledge base article How to use Group Policy to remotely install software in Windows Server 2003.

See also: Provisioning harmon.ie for SharePoint.