Deployment With Microsoft Intune
Before Starting
- Uninstall any previous edition of Antidote before installing Antidote 12. To do so, follow the instructions in this section. See Appendix A for technical details.
- You need access to a Microsoft account that is linked to your organization and has permission to Create and Update “Mobile apps” objects in Intune. The Intune built-in roles “Application Manager” and “School Administrator” and the Microsoft Entra built-in-roles “Global Administrator” and “Intune Administrator” have these permissions (see Role-based access control (RBAC) with Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Entra Permissions Management roles and permissions levels).
- You must use the Microsoft Win32 Content Prep Tool to deploy Antidote 12 with Intune. The packages preparation script provided will automatically download the most recent version of this tool.
- Installation with Intune is silent—no user interaction required.
- As a result, using the Deployment Manager is essential. See Configuring and activating to learn more.
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.
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 the supported software
- Setting personalization options (questions answered by each user the first time they launch Antidote)
- To avoid conflicts between different versions, you should not install or enable the Download Assistant when deploying Antidote with Intune.
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.