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Deployment of Original MSI by Commande Line

Before Starting

Before installing Antidote 12 using the instructions in this section, ensure that:

  • You have uninstalled any previous editions of Antidote. See Appendix A for technical details.
  • The applications (e.g. Microsoft Word) with which you want to integrate Antidote are already installed.
  • You have access to an administrator account on the workstation on which the installation is performed.
  • Antivirus and anti-spyware programs are disabled.
  • You have closed all applications.

General notes

Installing Antidote 12 involves up to four MSI files: one for the Antidote 12 application, one for the Connectix 12 application and one each language module (English and French) if applicable.

For installation with an MST transform file, use of the Download Assistant is disabled by default. To have your Antidote 12 installations automatically offer updates, you must enable this option with the Deployment Manager and install the Download Assistant. Administrator rights are nevertheless required for your end user to install them.

Deploying Antidote 12 using the MST transform file allows for the following:

  • Entering the serial number and quota code a single time
  • Predetermining integrations with supported software
  • Setting personalization options (questions answered by each user the first time they launch Antidote)

Personalizing Antidote

When first launched in each user account, Antidote asks a few personalization questions to adapt the corrector to the needs of its user. The answers can be changed at any time thereafter using Antidote’s settings panels (Resources > Options). The answers to these questions can be defined in an MST configuration file. This file must be passed as a parameter when (installing Antidote 12).

  • One of the personalization questions asks if you want to apply rectified spelling, which proposes an alternative, more contemporary way of writing certain French words. For more details, see the “Rectifications” section of the French guide “Orthographe” in Antidote and the Spelling rectifications panel page of the Antidote 12 user guide. When in doubt, select “both”. This choice can be modified at any time by the user.
  • To enter the serial number and the quota code only once (rather than on each workstation), you can use an MST configuration file, which requires local installations using this transform file (see Deploying the Original MSI File). It is also possible to copy and paste the serial number in the first box when prompted.

General Tips

  • You can download the latest version of the installer from your Organization Client Portal.
  • The content of the unzipped installation folder, including the installer Inst - Antidote.exe, as well as the msi folder that accompanies it, can be copied onto a removable media or a network drive to be used with more than one workstation. This will make it unnecessary to download the installer on each workstation to install or update Antidote 12.