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Chapter 5: QBC Mass Deployment
In order to facilitate QBC deployment across the entire network, you can use a mass
deployment program such as Kace. These products require an installation package composed
of files that you will need to assemble. This installation package must contain a customized
settings.ini file and other files from the original QBC installation package downloaded from
Spectralink. Needed files are then assembled into an installation package and the mass
deployment program then performs the installation. The next time a user logs in, the program
will start and is ready to use.
How to find, customize and assemble these files is explained in this Appendix.
Procedure
1 Perform the installation on the representative computer as described in Chapter Two.
2 Configure per Chapter Three.
3 Locate the settings.ini file that was loaded onto the representative computer.
The settings.ini file is located in the directory that is created after the installation on the
representative computer and upon first start of the QBC program. The exact location
depends on your version of Windows. For example, in a Window XP system the
settings.ini file is installed in the following directory:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Polycom\QuickBarcodeConnector\
The ini file is loaded at program start and written to when settings in the options dialog
box are modified. Nothing is stored in the registry.
4 Make a copy of the settings.ini file for customization.
5 Open the settings.ini file copy. You will be changing the IP addresses of the first two
settings—Network and Subnet. See the further explanation below for additional
information about how and why this is done.
6 Customize the Network and Subnet IP addresses for the network where you want to
push the QBC program.
Caution: Change only the Network and Subnet IP addresses.
Do not change any other parameters in the settings.ini file. Only the Network and
Subnet IP address need to be changed for the mass deployment installation
package. Any other alteration may cause the installation to fail.
Your representative settings.ini file will contain a Network setting something like
10.232.16.14 and a Subnet setting something like 255.255.254.0, because the computer
you created it on had that IP address and subnet settings. While this network and subnet
combination will match all computers on the subnet of the representative computer it
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