Milestone M50 - Manual (Page 23)

Milestone Husky M30/M50 Administrator's Manual
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Installation
Install silently
Surveillance system administrators can deploy XProtect Smart Client to users’ computers using tools
such as Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). Such tools let administrators build up
databases of hardware and software on local networks. You can then use the databases for
distributing and installing software applications, such as XProtect Smart Client, over local networks.
1. Locate the XProtect Smart Client installation program (.exe) file - MilestoneXProtectSmart
Client.exe or MilestoneXProtectSmart Client_x64.exe for 32-bit and 64-bit versions
respectively. You find the file in a subfolder under the folder httpdocs. The httpdocs folder is
located under the folder in which your Milestone surveillance software is installed.
The path is typically:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Milestone\Milestone Surveillance\httpdocs\Smart Client
Installer\[version number] [bit-version]\All Languages\en-US
For example:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Milestone\Milestone Surveillance\httpdocs\Smart Client
Installer\6.0a (32-bit)\All Languages\en-US
2. Run a silent installation using one of the following two options:
a Run with default parameter settings:
To run a silent installation using the default values for all parameters, start a command prompt
(cmd.exe) in the directory where the installation program is located and execute following
command:
MilestoneXProtectSmart Client.exe - –quiet
This performs a quiet installation of XProtect Smart Client using default values for parameters
such as target directory and so on. To change the default settings, see below.
b Customize default parameters using an xml argument file as input:
In order to customize the default installation settings, you must provide an xml file with
modified values as input. In order to generate the xml file with default values, open a command
prompt in the directory where the installation program is located and execute following
command:
MilestoneXProtectSmart Client.exe --generateargsfile=args.xml
Open the generated args.xml file in a text editor such as Notepad, and perform any changes
needed. Then execute following command in the same directory to run a modified version of
the silent installation.
MilestoneXProtectSmart Client.exe --arguments=args.xml --quiet