Advanced Parallels Client Installation

Note: This section is intended for IT Administrators. If you are not an IT administrator in your organization, you may skip it.

The Parallels Client for Windows installer uses the MSI format. This enables you to deploy it remotely using Group Policies or any other deployment tool that can work with MSI installers.

There are two ways to modify the client installation settings:

• Modify the original file using Orca.exe.
• Run the installer from the command line: msiexec.exe /i RASClient.msi (or RASClient-x64.msi if using a 64 bit version)

Silent Install

To perform a silent install, run the following command:

msiexec.exe /qn /i RASClient.msi

In the command above, specify RASClient-x64.msi if using a 64 bit version of Parallels Client for Windows.

General Settings

When running an installation command specified above, you can pass the following properties to msiexec.exe using the PROPERTY=VALUE notation:

DEFSETTINGS: To use when Parallels Client installer reads 2xsetting.2xc (the file containing all settings to be used by the client) as default settings.

DEFSETTXML: To use when XML settings are entered manually.

OVERRIDEUSERSETTINGS: To override the user settings with client MSI settings.

• 0 – Client settings are not overridden
• 1 – Client settings are overridden with the new settings of the Client MSI setup.

DISABLEOPTIONS: To disable the Options button and hide the options to configure the client settings. This option can be applied to users without administrative rights.

• 0 – Options are enabled
• 1 – Options are disabled

DISABLEOPTIONSADMIN: To disable the Options button and hide the options to configure the client settings. This option can be applied to users with administrative rights.

DISABLESAVEPASSWORDADMIN: To disable the clients from saving the password even if they have administrative rights.

• 0 – Option to save password is enabled
• 1 – Option to save Password is disabled

DISABLESAVEPASSWORD: To disable the clients from saving the password. This option is ignored with users with administrative rights.

• 0 – Option to save password is enabled
• 1 – Option to save Password is disabled

TUXGINA: Exclude/Include SSO during a silent installation

• 0 – Install SSO
• 1 – Exclude SSO
• 2 – Prompt during installation [Default]

TUXGINASRV: Install SSO on both Client and Server

• 0 – Install SSO only on the Client
• 1 – Install SSO on both Client and Server

Using Active Directory

There are two different ways that you can deploy an application through Active Directory. You can either publish the application or you can assign the application.

You can publish applications to users only, but you can assign applications to either users or computers. The applications are deployed in different ways, depending on which method you decide to use.

Parallels recommends that administrators assign the applications to COMPUTERS. The main reason is that the application is actually installed the next time the computer reboots.

When assigning to users, the application is not installed until the user actually clicks on the icons created for the application.

To assign an application to certain computers, simply do the following in Active Directory:

1. Open the Group Policy Editor.
2. To assign an application to a computer, navigate through the group policy console to Computer Configuration / Software Settings / Software Installation. Right-click the Software Installation container and click New > Package in the context menu. Select the appropriate MSI file and click Open . You are now asked whether you want to publish or assign the application. Select Assign and click OK .

Please note that when doing a silent installation, the MSI can be deployed using the following syntax (for the 64 bit version, use RASClient-x64.msi ):

msiexec /qn /i RASClient.msi

The following sample command installs Parallels Client using the DISABLESAVEPASSWORD=0 option (enable the ability to save the password)  while skipping the SSO installation:

msiexec /qn /i 2XClient.msi DISABLESAVEPASSWORD=0 TUXGINA=1