Self service and Smart Notebook installations

[anickless]

Hi everyone I am wondering if anyone has been successful in installing either the smart notebook software or the notebook driver via self-service. I have tried with composer and with the packages.app and neither seem to work so I am just curious if anyone has been successful themselves.

[CasperSally]

We deploy the trial version and then use a policy to activate.

They do have a deployment toolkit, I wish they allowed for a better way to include the gallery.

See these previous threads
activation

deployment

[ttyler1999]

I use Smart Install Manager and it works great. This will allow you to create your own custom package that you can then drop into Self Service. You can download it form the same place as the installer.

[JKingsnorth]

I've had tons of success with SMART Install Manager as well.

Basically it walks you through an Install (without installing) and then creates it's own PKG file that you can import into Casper Admin.

[Nix4Life]

@anickless you really should use the SMART Install Manager. I'm not sure if i'm in the thread that @CasperSally mentioned, but i didn't have nice things to say about SMART , but it seems they got their act together now that Benq is on the scene, and the SMART Install Manager works rather well. Why use composer and repackage a .pkg

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[anickless]

Thanks for the suggestion of SMART install Manager, I cannot seem to find it however! Does anyone have the link?

@JKingsnorth @LSinNY

[ttyler1999 · Accepted solution]

https://education.smarttech.com/en/products/notebook/download#admin

Enter your key and then scroll to the bottom and there is a link that says SMART Install Manager.

I missed that link myself when I went looking the first time!

[anickless]

Thank you everyone... It is in small writing compared to everything else.