WTS Install
Voyager Professional Microsoft Windows Terminal Server Installation / Setup Guide
 Introduction / Installation Principal

This documents seeks to provide guidelines for the setup of a Windows Terminal Server (WindowsNT 4.0 TSE and Windows2000) to accommodate Voyager Professional.

The issue with regards to the use of Voyager Professional with WTS is the fact that by default the system drive is the C-Drive. The problem with this is that each user needs their own unique C-Drive to use Voyager Professional - this is because a number of files in the c:\solarprg directory need to be opened for exclusive write access. Therefore, the essence of the installation of Voyager Professional on WTS is to ensure that the WTS operating system is installed on a drive other than C:. Thus, each user can be assigned their own C-Drive which is a virtual drive rather than physical drive.


 Installation Guide

» WindowsNT 4.0 TSE - To achieve the required installation, the following stages need to be completed.
  1. Start the WindowsNT 4.0 TSE installation. When asked onto which partition you wish to install to, make sure that you create at least two partitions. You may install to any partition APART from the primary partition (C-Drive).
  2. Continue to install WTS as normal.
  3. Once the basic installation has completed open Disk Administrator. You will see the drive configuration that you created in step1.
  4. Right-click on the C partition and select ‘Assign Drive Letter’.
  5. Change the drive letter to a later letter (EG. ‘F’) and click ‘OK’
  6. Reboot the server. Now check in Windows Explorer that you have no C-Drive.
  7. Apply any Service Packs and Security Updates that are necessary.
  8. Install any other software you require on the Terminal Server, such as Microsoft Office (for information on how to install Office on a Terminal Server please see www.microsoft.com/office)

» Windows2000/2003 - The method for Windows2000/2003 is slightly different but the principal is the same.

IMPORTANT: This article contains information about editing the registry. Before you edit the registry, make sure you understand how to restore it if a problem occurs. For information about how to do this, view the "Restoring the Registry" Help topic in Regedit.exe

NOTE: Some server manufacturers (inc HP and Dell) provide installation software that installs your server for you.  When you use this software you must choose the MANUAL installation option otherwise you will not be given the chance to select which partition to install the operating system on and will need to rebuild the server from scratch.

  1. Start the Windows2000/2003 installation. When asked onto which partition you wish to install to, make sure that you create at least two partitions. You may install to any partition APART from the primary partition (C-Drive).
  2. Continue to install as normal, remembering to add in ‘Terminal Services (in APPLICATION MODE)’ and ‘Terminal Services Licensing’.  [For Windows2003 you can add Terminal Server as a role after you have completed the Windows installation]
  3. Once you've installed W2K/3 Server, you need to 'move' the C drive to another letter within Windows. For information on this please refer to http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q223/1/88.ASP , but following the steps outlined in this document will achieve this.
  4. Open the registry editor Regedit.exe
  5. Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MOUNTEDDEVICES
  6. Rename the value ‘\DosDevices\C:’ to the new drive letter you wish to assign it, for example to make it the F-Drive rename it to ‘\DosDevices\F:’
  7. Close the registry editor and reboot the server.
  8. You can now check in Windows Explorer that you no longer have a C-Drive.
  9. Apply any necessary Service Packs and Security Updates that are necessary.
  10. Install any other software you require on the Terminal Server, such as Microsoft Office (for information on how to install Office on a Terminal Server pls see www.microsoft.com/office)

» Voyager Professional - Installing Voyager Professional on either operating system follows the same as procedure.

  1. On a data drive (for this example we will use F) create a directory called ‘Users’.
  2. Below this new directory create another two called ‘Administrator’ and ‘Default User’
  3. In the ‘Start Up’ program group for Administrator create a new shortcut called ‘Map C-Drive’ – the command being ‘subst c: f:\users\administrator’ (where ‘f’ is the data drive)
  4. Log in to WTS as Administrator.
  5. Connect to the Voyager Professional database share (ie map the S-Drive to \\servername\voydata as described in the Voyager Professional Installation Guide)
  6. Open Control Panel and go into ‘Add/Remove Programs’ and click on the ‘Install’ button and then click ‘Next’.
  7. Browse to the file s:\setup24\clisetup.exe and install Voyager Professional as usual.
  8. Reboot the Terminal Server and log on as Administrator
  9. Copy ‘f:\users\administrator\solarprg’ (created by the Professional installation) to f:\users\default user.
  10. Create a directory below ‘f:\users’ for each user (using their Username for the directory name) that will be using Voyager Professional on the Terminal Server and copy the contents of ‘f:\users\default user’ into each one.
  11. You will need to create a shortcut for each user in their ‘Start Up’ group as in Step 3 but replacing ‘f:\users\administrator’ with ‘f:\users\USERNAME’
  12. Move the shortcut called ‘Voyager Professional 2.6 Client’ from the Administrator desktop to the ‘All Users’ desktop.
Each user should now log into WTS and run Voyager Professional – they will need to call Voyager Technical Support for an activation key on +61 2 9279 4412.