Milestone XProtect Professional 2014 - Manual (Page 27)

Milestone XProtect ® Professional
2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 27 Install and upgrade
Install and upgrade
Install your system software
Do not install your surveillance software on a mounted drive. A mounted drive is a drive that is
attached to an empty folder on an NTFS (NT File System) volume, with a label or name instead of a
drive letter. If you use mounted drives, critical system features may not work as intended. You do not,
for example, receive any warnings if the system runs out of disk space.
Before you start: Shut down any existing surveillance software. If you are upgrading, read Upgrade
from a previous version (see "Upgrading from one product version to another product version" on page
30) first.
1. Run the installation file.
2. If you have a previous installation of your system or any of the other XProtect Professional
VMS products installed, the system detects this installation and informs you that your previous
installation will be removed after installing the new version. If you accept this, click Yes to
continue the installation. All your recordings and configuration from the previous version will be
available in the new version.
3. Select language for the installer and then click Continue.
4. Select Trial to install a trial version of the system software if you do not have a license file yet.
If you already have a license file, type the destination of the license file or click Browse to
locate it on your computer.
5. Read and accept the license agreement, indicate if you want to participate in the Milestone
data collection program and indicate if you want to enable access to Customer Dashboard.
6. Select Typical or Custom installation. If you select Custom installation, you can select
application language, which features to install and where to install them. Let the installation
wizard complete.
7. If you have installed a trial version, open the Management Application once the installation is
complete and select which of the XProtect Professional VMS Products you want to use, for
example XProtect Enterprise.
You can now begin to configure your system. To do so, see Get your system up and running (on page
33).
Install silently
A surveillance system administrator can deploy the system or XProtect Smart Client to users’
computers by using tools such as Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). With this tool, you
can build up databases of hardware and software on local networks. You can then use the databases
for distributing and installing software applications over local networks.
To install silently: