

Silent assisted installation using Apple Remote Desktop.Installing from the command line with msiexec.Installing using a networked volume (Recommended).With a new version of FileMaker just released, now is the time to learn how to use the assisted install so you can spend all of those hours you told your boss it would take to install FileMaker doing something else. This same feature also gives you additional options that aren’t available when running the installer normally. For this reason, FileMaker provides installation options that allow you to automatically provide your license information to the installer so that it doesn’t need to be manually entered on each user’s machine.

When you’re setting up FileMaker Pro Advanced on one or two machines, you probably don’t give much thought to how long it takes to enter your license information and run the installer, but you don’t have to do this very many times before it becomes tedious and deploying a new version to even a moderate-sized workgroup can become a huge time suck. If you haven’t installed the new version yet and you are not looking forward to how long it will take you to do so, you are in the right place. Come back and read it again before you install FileMaker 19 next year. Did you just finish the FileMaker Pro 18 assisted install on all the machines in your workgroup? If so, you’re reading this too late.
