Customers owning a site licence or multi-user licence version of ClaroRead are able to distribute that product over multiple computers. This could be done by visiting each computer with the installers on a USB pen drive, and manually installing the product, but this would be very time-consuming. If the computers are connected on a network however it is possible to use Microsoft networking tools to distribute the software from a central location.
ClaroRead exclusively uses Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) files for installation. This means that standard Microsoft installation techniques can be used. For more information on the techniques please consult the following sections.
ClaroRead also comes with high-quality synthesized speech voices: these sound great, but can eat up more disk space than you want. See the Voices section below.
Installing using Active Directory Group Policy
Group Policy is a feature of Windows Server which allows the definition of rules that are applied to individual users or groups of users. These rules allow for the installation of software when the user logs into any machine. The following two guide shows how to distribute ClaroRead using Group Policy on Windows Server.
Installing for RemoteApp
RemoteApp is a feature in Windows Server which allows users to run an application on a remote server but see it as though it were running on their own desktop. ClaroRead can work in this manner however some problems can occur if the software needs to communicate with another piece of software but they aren’t running on the same machine. For instance, if ClaroRead was being run on a server and viewed through RemoteApp but Microsoft Word was running on the client machine then the highlighting and reading features (as well as others) would not be available because ClaroRead would not be able to communicate with Microsoft Word. If both pieces of software were running on the server however then ClaroRead would work normally.
For information on how to install products for use by RemoteApp please see Installing Applications for Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services and Configuring RemoteApp on Windows Server 2008.
For information on using RemoteApp from Microsoft please see Terminal Services RemoteApp (TS RemoteApp).
Prerequisites
Supported Windows version.
ClaroRead is designed for currently-supported Windows releases. Older versions of Windows will not work properly. You should update to the latest Service Pack for your system. Check the System Requirements listed for your product. ClaroRead System Requirements.
.NET Framework
Our products require .NET Framework. This is noted in the Release Notes for the product here in the Technical Support website.
Provide licence key during installation (multi-user key only)
Our licence key (or license key) versions of ClaroRead require a licence key before they will run. This is time-consuming to install by hand across many machines. This is a quicker way to license your software across multiple machines.
Provide the key to the Windows Installer MSI file for ClaroRead as a commandline argument on an elevated command prompt.
Add LICENCEKEY to your MSIEXEC call to install the MSI.
Note that LICENCEKEY is case-sensitive. For example:
msiexec /I Z:\SoftwareDistribution\ClaroRead\ClaroRead-engb.msi LICENCEKEY=1234-2342-2123-2312-1232 /passive
This writes the licence key to the target machine during installation, and when ClaroRead runs it will automatically authenticate online and everything should work – a User can do this, it does not need an administrator.
Voices
Many of our products come with synthesized speech voices (e.g. ‘Vocalizer Daniel’). These are usually SAPI5 voices, installed by separate MSI windows installer files.
Generally, larger voices are better, but because of their high quality some voices can be hundreds of MB in size, so you may or may not want to install them all.
You will find the voices as separate installer files from the download source you have been given for your software.