Microsoft BackOffice Client Installer Help
BackOffice Client Installer Help

BackOffice Client Installer Help contains important information about setting up Microsoft BackOffice client applications on your computer. Before you continue, review the topic titled Important Information (read first!). This topic contains information that may not appear in printed documentation. You should also review topics pertaining to applications you want to install.

Note

Some topics may refer to documentation for a particular application. If you do not have the document to which a topic refers, you can order it by using your Documentation Coupon, or you can view it online from that applications directory on the appropriate BackOffice compact disc from any computer running Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Windows NT.

Important Information (read first!)

More information

Supported Platforms

Using BackOffice Client Installer

Installing Microsoft Exchange Server Client

Installing Microsoft Internet Explorer

Installing Microsoft SNA Server Clients

Installing Microsoft SQL Server Client Utilities

Installing Microsoft Systems Management Server Clients


Before You Continue...

Please consider the following issues before installing clients for Microsoft BackOffice applications:

SNA Server includes both server and client functions. Therefore, if you have installed SNA Server on your computer, it is not necessary to install the client on this computer.

The installation process for Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) also installs Microsoft Internet Explorer, the client for IIS. Use BackOffice Client Installer to install Internet Explorer on additional computers.

Note

The terms of the Server License for Microsoft BackOffice require you to acquire an appropriate number of Client Access Licenses in order to access BackOffice. Client Access Licenses must be acquired separately. See your reseller for more information.

More information

Supported Platforms

Using BackOffice Client Installer

Installing Microsoft Exchange Server Client

Installing Microsoft Internet Explorer

Installing Microsoft SNA Server Clients

Installing Microsoft SQL Server Client Utilities


Supported Platforms

The table below shows platforms on which you can install clients for BackOffice applications. Provided Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) is correctly configured, SMS provides client utilities the first time a client logs on a domain in which SMS is installed. You can use the BackOffice Client Installer to install clients for all other BackOffice applications on Windows 3.x, Windows 95, Windows NT X86, Windows NT Alpha, Windows NT MIPS, and Windows NT PPC platforms.

Platform	Client
	Microsoft SQL Server	Microsoft SNA Server	Microsoft Exchange Server	Microsoft Internet Information Server	Microsoft SMS
MS-DOS	X	X	X		X
OS/2		X			X
Apple Macintosh					X
Windows 3.x	X	X	X	X	X
Windows 95	X	X	X	X	X
Windows NT X86	X	X	X	X	X
Windows NT Alpha	X	X	X	X	X
Windows NT MIPS	X	X	X	X	X
Windows NT PPC	X	X		X


Installing BackOffice clients Over a Network
Using BackOffice Client Installer

You can use BackOffice Client Installer to install client applications from the following media:

BackOffice Compact Disc

Network shared drive

Floppy disk and network shared drive

Refer to Getting Started with Microsoft BackOffice, included in your BackOffice product box, for more information about using BackOffice Client Installer.

Note

The terms of the Server License for Microsoft BackOffice require you to acquire an appropriate number of Client Access Licenses in order to access BackOffice. Client Access Licenses must be acquired separately. See your reseller for more information.

To start BackOffice Client Installer from BackOffice compact discs

1.	Insert BackOffice Compact Disk 1 in your CD-ROM drive.

2.	From a command prompt, type d:\boclient\setup.exe, where d is the letter representing your CD-ROM drive.

To start BackOffice Client Installer from a network shared drive

1	Copy the files and directories of all BackOffice compact discs to a network shared directory.

2	Connect the network shared directory to a drive letter on the computer on which you want to install BackOffice.

3	Run Setup.exe from the Boclient subdirectory of the network shared directory to which you have copied the contents of BackOffice Compact Disc 1.

To start BackOffice Client Installer from a floppy disk and a network shared drive

1.	Insert BackOffice Compact Disk 1 in your CD-ROM drive and a floppy disk in your 3.5-inch or 5.25-inch disk drive.

2	Copy the files in the Boclient directory on BackOffice Compact Disc 1 to the floppy disk you want to use to begin installation.

2	Insert the floppy disk you created in Step 2 in a disk drive on the computer on which you want to install a client application.

3	Type a:\setup.exe, where a is the letter representing the disk drive.

4	On the Client Applications Selection Panel, select the application for which you want to install a client, then click OK.

5	A dialog box appears asking you to select a directory where the setup program is located. Select the path by which the computer can gain access to either a network shared drive on which you have copied the appropriate BackOffice compact disc or a CD-ROM containing the appropriate disc, then click OK.


Installing Microsoft Exchange Server clients
Installing Microsoft Exchange Client

This information will help you set up Microsoft Exchange Client for a generic environment. It may not provide all the information required to set up Microsoft Exchange Client for your particular production environment.

For more information about setting up Microsoft Exchange Client, refer to Installation Guide For Microsoft Exchange Server.

For information about upgrading Microsoft Mail to Microsoft Exchange Server, refer to the documents in the Exchange\Server\Migrate directory on BackOffice Compact Disk 3.

Note

To install the French-Canadian version of Microsoft Exchange Client, run install.exe from the subdirectory appropriate to your platform from \Exchange\Clients\Fr_can\ on BackOffice Compact Disc 4. For example, if you want to install Microsoft Exchange Client on a computer running Windows NT and an Intel processor, run install.exe from \Exchange\Clients\Fr_can\winnt\i386.

Microsoft SQL Server Mail and Microsoft Exchange Client

If you have both Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Client installed on the same computer, be sure to set delivery options for Microsoft Exchange Client so that messages are saved on the computer running Microsoft Exchange Server, not in a personal folder on the computer running Microsoft Exchange Client. If you set delivery options to save messages in a personal folder, you may experience difficulty sending mail from SQL Server Mail. Refer to Microsoft Exchange documentation for more information on setting delivery options.


Installing Microsoft Internet Explorer
Installing Microsoft Internet Information Server clients

The installation process for Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) also installs Microsoft Internet Explorer, the client for IIS. Use BackOffice Client Installer to install Internet Explorer on additional computers.

For more information about setting up Microsoft Internet Explorer, refer to Installation and Planning Guide For Microsoft Internet Information Server as well as the release notes contained in the file Readme.wri.


Installing Microsoft SNA Server Clients

This information will help you set up a generic client installation of for SNA Server; it may not provide all the information required to set up SNA Server clients for your particular production environment.

SNA Server includes both server and client functions. Therefore, if you have installed SNA Server on your computer, it is not necessary to install the client on this computer.

For more information about installing clients for SNA Server, refer to Installation Guide For Microsoft SNA Server and Enhancements Guide For Microsoft SNA Server.


Installing Microsoft SQL Server clients
Installing Microsoft SQL Server Client Utilities

If you have both Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange Client installed on the same computer, be sure to set delivery options for Microsoft Exchange Client so that messages are saved on the computer running Microsoft Exchange Server, not in a personal folder on the computer running Microsoft Exchange Client. If you set delivery options to save messages in a personal folder, you may experience difficulty sending mail from SQL Server Mail. Refer to Microsoft Exchange documentation for more information on setting delivery options.

For more information about installing SQL Server clients, refer to Setup For Microsoft SQL Server 6.0 and Whats New in SQL Server 6.5.


Installing Microsoft Systems Management Server Clients

Client distribution and installation functions are included in Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). Therefore, you do not need to use BackOffice Client Installer to install SMS clients.

For information about installing SMS clients, refer to Administrators Guide For Microsoft Systems Management Server.