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empower® Suite setup

Integrated Products and Components

  • Slides
  • Charts
  • Docs
  • Mails
  • Sheets
  • Sync

General Information

We provided you with the installation package to install empower® Suite.

Please notice: Before you start the installation make sure that all Office products are closed!

 

Installation

1. Start empowerSuite-perUser.msi or empowerSuite-perMachine.msi



 

2. Continue the installation by pressing Next

 

 

3. Accept the license agreement and continue by pressing Next again


 

4. For Content Creation/Solution Installation: All empower® components to be installed on the device are listed here. Click on the Next button to continue with the installation.

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For the Suite installation: Only select the empower® components you have purchased. Otherwise you will receive unexpected error messages. Click on the Next button to continue with the installation.

 

5. Then click on Install to start the installation

 

 

6. Finish the installation by pressing Finish

 

 

The sync does not have to be installed specifically since it is part of any product which depends on the sync.

empower® Suite installer also supports the uninstallation of branding customizings. At uninstallation time all files in the directory except the Userpreferences.db are deleted.
What happens with the branding customizing files is determined by the following rules:

  • If the sync is installed the customizing is installed
  • If the sync is installed again or updated the logic checks if a new customizing is provided. If this is the case the old customizing is removed and the new customizing is installed. This happens to remove all the old binary data
  • If the sync is removed the customizing is also removed
  • If a product which uses the sync is already installed (i.e. Slides) and another product is installed which depends on the sync (i.e. Docs) than the same logic as in the reinstall/update path happens

If you installed empower® Slides

  1. After you have finished the installation, start PowerPoint and if necessary log in empower® sync with a given username and password.
  2. empower® Suite prepares PowerPoint and loads all relevant data. This can take some time.
  3. After a successful setup please restart PowerPoint. You will receive a notification Welcome to empower and a new empower tab in the ribbon.

 

If you installed empower® Charts 

  1. After you have finished the installation, start PowerPoint and if necessary log in empower® sync with a given username and password.
  2. empower® Suite prepares PowerPoint and loads all relevant data. This can take some time.
  3. After a successful setup please restart PowerPoint. Now you will get the possibility to add a empower® Chart in the Insert tab in the ribbon.

Please notice: If you installed empower® Slides and Charts you will get an additional part in the empower ribbon to add empower® Charts.

 

If you installed empower® Docs

  1. Open Word and if necessary log in with a given log in username and password.
  2. empower® Suite prepares Word and loads all relevant data. This can take some time.
  3. After a successful setup you will get a new empower tab on the left hand side of the ribbon.

Please notice: If you do not get the empower tab in the ribbon please restart PowerPoint/Word.

 

If you installed empower® Mails

  1. Please start Outlook.
  2. empower® Suite prepares Outlook and loads all relevant data. This can take some time.
  3. After a successful setup you will get a new empower mails part in the ribbon.

If you installed empower® Sheets

  1. Please start Sheets.
  2. empower® Suite prepares Sheets and loads all relevant data. This can take some time.
  3. After a successful setup you will get a new empower Sheets part in the ribbon.

License Activation 

In order to activate the license, the client need to be able to connect to the internet. For the internet activation the empower® client tries to connect to the empower® Activation Server (IP 13.69.68.8:80). This connection needs to be allowed in the proxy or firewall settings of the client system. If this should not be possible, empower may provide an Offline License File. This Offline License File needs to be distributed to all machines where no internet activation is possible.

 

Types of Setup

Type
Description
Last changed comment
perUser A per User Installer, which allows to choose which products to install. No product is automatically selected for installation.  
perMachine A per Machine Installer, which allows to choose which products to install. No product is automatically selected for installation.  

 

Additional Files

The additional files are stored in a subfolder named as Payload (Figure 1). These Files are located in subfolders according to the products.

Figure 1: Installer 

 

The payload folder requires the following content:

Suite >=9.1:

Slides

  • Licensekey.txt
  • NoStartScreen.dat

Charts

  • Licensekey.txt
  • Holidays.xml
  • Customizing (Binärdaten .ecdc, .ecbc, from >=9.2 .jsoncu)
  • aip_labelSettings.xml (optional)

Docs

  • Licensekey.txt

Mails

  • Licensekey.txt

Sheets

  • Licensekey.txt

Sync

  • RemoteServiceConfig.xml

Suite

  • DisableExternalProcessStarts.flag (optional)

 

Solutions >=9.1/Content Creation:

charts

  • Holidays.xml
  • Customizing (.ecdc, .ecbc, from >=9.2 .jsoncu)
  • aip_labelSettings.xml (optional)

suite

  • Licensekey.txt

sync

  • RemoteServiceConfig.xml
  • data Folder (only for Content Creation)

 

Mehr Informationen zu den Dateien

Filename
Description
Filecontent
NoStartScreen.dat If this file is available in the payload directory, empower® slides will prevent the display of the "empower® is preparing in the background" window.  empty
DisableExternalProcessStarts.flag Disabled the start of external programs i.e. sync, etc.
If this file is used it must be in the payload directory on every update.		  empty
Licensekey.txt Contains a product key that is used to activate the product.  Product Key
RemoteServiceConfig.xml The connection to the backend is established using RemoteServiceConfig.xml.  xml ServerConfiguration
Holidays.xml The current Holidays file contains the usual public holidays.  /
Customizing The Customizing settings charts are saved here.  /
aip_labelSettings.xml The standard settings regarding AIP Label and empower  /

 

Setup Parameter

Parameter
Allowed Values
Default Value
(if not defined)
Definition
ENABLE_PAY-LOAD_CHECK  0,1 1

Defines whether the payload folder should be checked.

This parameter only affects the check by the suite uninstaller. Checks that are explicitly carried out by the products (e.g. charts) are not affected by this.
SLIDES_EMPOWER-RIBBONINSERTAFTERIDMSO  IdMso of RibbonTabs  as string empty Defines whether slides should be displayed behind another ribbon tab.
EXECUTINGDIRECTORY  Path empty

This property can be used to specify the path where the MSI is located.

This may be necessary to define the storage location when executing the command line from another folder.

Installation using the command line

If you want to install products command line, you need to use the ADDLOCAL Property by MSI

(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/addlocal)

If you want to remove/uninstall parts of the products you need to use the REMOVE Property by MSI

(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/remove)

If the setup does not define a standard set of products to install, the definition of ADDLOCAL is mandatory on the first installation.

Allowed product names for ADDLOCAL and REMOVE:

  • Slides
  • Docs
  • Mails
  • Sheets
  • Charts
  • Autoupdater 

Examples:

  • msiexec /i empowerSuite-perMachine.msi /q /l*v installer.log ADDLOCAL=slides,docs,charts
  • msiexec /i empowerSuite-perMachine.msi /q /l*v installer.log REMOVE=charts

Please notice

  • If there are no products selected automatically, you need to use the ADDLOCAL command if you install it the first time.
  • If charts standalone was installed and a suite installer is installed, the previous version of charts should be removed. If not a few previous files will be left in the previous installation path.

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