Deployment From One Workstation to Another

Before Starting

Before installing Antidote 12 using the instructions in this section, ensure the following points apply:

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.

Inst - Antidote.exe is used only for deploying local installations that do not have recourse to a command line.

General Notes

To perform a logged installation to identify the source of an installation problem, hold down the CTRL key when launching Antidote’s installation, and continue holding until a “diagnostic mode” indication appears. Installation logs will be saved onto the desktop (InstallationAntidote_x.log), which can be sent to our technical support team for analysis.
Updates are automatically proposed to the user. However, administrator rights are still required to install them.
When Antidote 12 is being installed for a single language, the installer dialogues are in that language. In the case of a bilingual installation, the installer uses the system’s language. The language of the installer can be changed by indicating the preferred language with a local installation using the MST transform file (Installation of original MSI).

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.

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