About the P6 Professional Setup Wizard

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Install P6 Professional by running the Setup wizard.

The Setup wizard presents several options, only the following two are applicable when installing P6 Professional for EPPM, All other options are for use in a P6 Professional-only environment. See the P6 Professional P6 Professional Administrator's Guide for details:

Typical - This choice installs P6 Professional to work in EPPM 8.3 environments.

Advanced - This choice allows:

• An alternate installation folder path, as described in Installing the P6 Professional Application for Typical Use.
• An option that allows the installation of P6 Visualizer for standalone use, as described in Installing P6 Visualizer Only.

The Setup wizard displays the amount of disk space required to install P6 Professional. Administrator rights are required to install on computers running Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows Vista SP2, or Windows 7. Also, the network protocol TCP/IP must be installed on the client computer.

If you do not want to install P6 Professional manually, you can run an unattended setup. See Unattended Setup for P6 Professional.

Notes:

• See Previous Versions of P6 Professional before running the Setup wizard if version 6.0 or later of P6 Professional is currently installed.
• Primavera P6 Visualizer will be automatically installed when you install P6 Professional.
• The P3 application is required for users with 32-bit operating systems to be able to import and export P3 data. Make sure that P3 is installed PRIOR to running the P6 EPPM setup wizard. See Configuring Client Machines to Transfer Data Between P3 and P6 Professional after P6 Professional is installed for additional configuration procedures. See Troubleshooting Importing Projects from P3 to P6 Professional in the P6 Professional Help for instructions on how to manually register required files after the installations are complete if you install P3 after you install P6 Professional, if you do not want to install P3 on the same machine where P6 Professional is installed, or if you are using 64-bit operating systems.
• Starting with P6 EPPM R8, all recurring job service functions are hosted by P6. Due to this change, after upgrading to P6 EPPM R8 or later, you must configure Scheduled Services settings in the P6 Administrator application to use this functionality. Also, if you're upgrading from version 7.0 or earlier, you must RESUMMARIZE ALL PROJECTS to accurately reflect your summary data. See the P6 EPPM Post Installation Administrator's Guide for information on Scheduled Services and configuring separate servers for job services.