![]() It’s also possible to write a batch file that calls this for you. Using the command prompt run as an administrator you can enter the license information at the command line. Installing from the command line with msiexec Still requires some input from the user to install. Provides the most installation options of any method.Ĭons: License information is stored in plain text so anyone with access to the installer can copy it if they know where to look. FileMaker provides you with an Assisted Install template file that you fill in. See the section below that details the contents of the Assisted Install file for more information on the options available here. Please note: while FileMaker documentation refers to this as a “networked volume” install, this can also be run from removable media. The customized installer folder is then placed on a volume where it can be accessed by the workstations where you need to install FileMaker Pro Advanced. This method stores the installation options in a plain-text file named Assisted Install.txt that resides in the Files folder inside the unzipped Windows installer folder. Installing using a networked volume (Recommended) Each platform has its own version of this file and they are not interchangeable.Īlso, it goes without saying that you must have admin-level access to install FileMaker Pro Advanced on any workstation. While both the Windows and macOS installers can make use of a file named Assisted Install.txt don’t be fooled into thinking that they are the same. Take appropriate precautions to make sure your license information cannot be easily stolen. Covering the full range of installation methods in depth is beyond the scope of this blog post, but I will do my best to give you an overview of the methods for each platform and cover the methods that I’ve used more thoroughly.īefore I launch into an explanation of these methods I want to point out that most of these require you to save your FileMaker license information where the installer can find it, which means that it is also available to any user who can access the installer. ![]() Which one you pick will be determined by your OS and your company’s IT policy. There are several methods that you can use to streamline your installation process. Picking a FileMaker Pro 18 Assisted Install Method Options in the FileMaker Pro 18 Assisted Install.Silent assisted installation using Apple Remote Desktop.Installing from the command line with msiexec.Installing using a networked volume (Recommended).With a new version of FileMaker just released, now is the time to learn how to use the assisted install so you can spend all of those hours you told your boss it would take to install FileMaker doing something else. This same feature also gives you additional options that aren’t available when running the installer normally. For this reason, FileMaker provides installation options that allow you to automatically provide your license information to the installer so that it doesn’t need to be manually entered on each user’s machine. When you’re setting up FileMaker Pro Advanced on one or two machines, you probably don’t give much thought to how long it takes to enter your license information and run the installer, but you don’t have to do this very many times before it becomes tedious and deploying a new version to even a moderate-sized workgroup can become a huge time suck. If you haven’t installed the new version yet and you are not looking forward to how long it will take you to do so, you are in the right place. Come back and read it again before you install FileMaker 19 next year. Did you just finish the FileMaker Pro 18 assisted install on all the machines in your workgroup? If so, you’re reading this too late.
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