Installing Omniscopes throughout an organisation 

Installation for corporate-administered Windows machines/networks

To install Omniscope in a corporate administered network environment you may either install individually, or deploy (roll out) to multiple terminals from a central location. Once installed, you will then need to activate your installation(s) to increase functionality from the read/query/print-only free Viewer to the authoring Desktop (or Server) Editions. Omniscope licensing is on a per-account, not a per-machine basis. If you install using an Administrator account, you must activate using the User, rather than Administrative account. Installing to all accounts will result in all unactivated accounts having the free Viewer installed...usually a good thing.

Single User Windows installation

Download the full installer files

There is only one installer file for all Omniscope Editions. Download the full installer from here

The full installers which are self-contained (include the latest Java PVM) and do not trigger further downloads.

Installation by an System Administrator

It is advisable for the Administrator to configure the appropriate proxy settings at installation, allowing Omniscope to activate and update itself online. This can be done from Settings > {Application-wide} Advanced > HTTP Proxy Settings. Another alternative is to deploy a plain-text properties file into the Visokio Omniscope program folder in Program Files. See Proxy Settings for more information.

Activation from User account

Installations can be either unactivated Omniscope free Viewers (read/query/print-only of .IOK files), or an activated Omniscope Editions able to publish data sets as .IOM Workgroup or .IOK Professional files. If the user is intending to use only the free Viewer, then Omniscope doesn't need to be activated. However, if the user needs an authoring Edition of Omniscope, then the installation needs to be activated. Activation is by-account. Omniscope should be activated while logged in to the User account, not the Administrator account used for the installation. If another user logs in to a different account on the same machine, they will see the free Viewer only. When upgrading to a newer version, it is best to have all users refresh their activation from Omniscope:

Help > Licensing & Activation > [Refresh]

Multiple or 'Roll-out' installation

Omniscope can be deployed to multiple machines in an administered network environment using either a 3rd party application deployment management suite that will simulate the log-in of an administrator and execution of the offline installer executable, or using the silent installation option detailed below.

Roll-out Installation Options

Silent installation

Using the /S (capital "S") switch, the installer will run in silent mode. You can remotely execute the following command to install Omniscope without the usual sequence of interactive wizard steps. You may need to configure the installer to run in silent mode on next login.

 Z:/path/to/OmniscopeOfflineInstaller.exe /S

See Silent installation for more information. 

Deployment without using the installer

It is also possible to roll out Omniscope without the installer.  Please contact Visokio for further information.