Easy Deployment

With the volume/site license version of EndNote, a network administrator can use mass installation to install EndNote on multiple machines.

Recommended easy installation:
  1. First, unlock the installer to generate an EN2025Inst.msi file and a License.dat file. See Unlocking the Volume/Site License Installer.
  2. Deploy the EN2025Inst.msi and License.dat files together. You can deploy in any way you want, but make sure the two files are in the same directory when executed. You could zip the two files to distribute them to end users, you could create a Group Policy deployment where both files are delivered to the same location on the target machine, or you could drop the two files in a shared network location from which users execute the installer.

Note: If the files are deployed in a zipped file, the user will need to extract the files before installing EndNote. The installation will not work correctly if run from a zipped file.

Using the volume installer to install on an individual computer:
  1. First, unlock the installer to generate an EN2025Inst.msi file and a License.dat file. See  Unlocking the Volume/Site License Installer.
  2. Distribute both the EN2025Inst.msi and License.dat files to the user. For example, you can copy them to a shared network drive.
  3. The user should then copy the two files, EN2025Inst.msi and license.dat to the same folder on his/her individual computer.
  4. The user should log on to the computer with administrative rights, and then run EN2025Inst.msi to install the EndNote program. See A Typical Installation.

Related Topics

About Mass Program Installations

Changing the Default Content File Location

Custom Settings

Deploying the EndNote Installer with Group Policy

Networks and Volume Installations (Licensing of Volume Copies)

MSI Command Line Options

Scripted Program Installations

Using Libraries on a Network