About Mass Program Installations

With the volume/site license version of EndNote, a network administrator can use mass installation to install EndNote on multiple machines.

Please make sure that you meet these requirements before installing:

Make sure EndNote is licensed for the appropriate number of users.
Make sure that each computer is running one of the following Windows operating systems.

Windows 8 (32- or 64-bit versions)
Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit versions)
Windows Vista (32- or 64-bit versions)
Windows XP (with Service Pack 3 installed)

The product CD includes an EN Inst.msi file in an MSI folder. In Administrative Mode, the EndNote installer will prompt for a volume product key, which generates a license.dat file. The license.dat file must accompany the installer for volume license distribution in order to later bypass the product key installation prompt. See Unlocking the Volume/Site License Installer.

You can deploy the EndNote installer to multiple machines in one of these ways:

You can use the provided MSI Command Line Options for guidance. If you need additional information, refer to Microsoft’s mass installation documentation and command line documentation, or http://www.microsoft.com.

What you need to know about installing content files:

Previous versions of EndNote always installed all predefined content files (output styles, import filters, and connection files). These number in the thousands, and when they are all installed they can affect the speed and performance of EndNote. In EndNote , a typical installation includes only the most popular styles, filters, and connection files. If you do not know what subset of files are required by your users, you may want to install all files. You can do this by setting the property "INSTALLALLCONTENTFILES" to "yes". See Installing All Content Files.