Checklist—Planning the client installations

Use the following checklist to help plan the installations of the client applications.

The Central Designer and Central Designer Administrator applications are ClickOnce applications. You start a ClickOnce application by clicking a link from an Internet Explorer window.

When you click a link for either application, the Central Designer server checks whether the release that is installed on the server matches the files that are cached on your computer:

If the server has been newly installed or has been upgraded after your last logon, the files that are necessary to run the application are cached on your computer, and then are used to open the application.

If the server has not been updated since your last logon, the cached files on your computer are used to open the application.

þ	Task	Information
q	Make sure all system requirements, including .NET Framework requirements, have been met for the client computers.	System requirements: Client computers in the Release Notes. Verifying that the correct version of Microsoft .NET Framework is installed.
q	(Optional; this step is informational only.) Check whether the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser uses a proxy server to connect to the Internet. The Central Designer software uses the same proxy server.	Viewing Internet Explorer proxy settings.
q	Make sure the clocks on the application server computer, database server computer, and client computers are synchronized.	Synchronizing clocks on server and client computers.
q	Start the client applications.	Starting the Central Designer client. Starting the Central Designer Administrator client.