Installing Trapeze

Objective ID Authentication

As part of installing and deploying Objective Trapeze it is important to decide how you would like your users to sign in when using Objective Trapeze, there are two options:

  1. Users sign up for a new Objective ID account specifying their email address and a password the first time they use Objective Trapeze

  2. Users sign in using existing credentials. This option requires configuring federated authentication between the Objective ID system and your identity provider before enabling Objective ID Authentication. This is the option we recommend for the following reasons:

  • Your users benefit from using familiar credentials and don't have to remember a new password.

  • Your IT team benefits from the security benefits of the same identity being used to sign into multiple systems. For example, when a user leaves an organisation their access to Objective Trapeze is easily revoked at the same time as their access to other systems.

Please see the Objective ID Federated Authentication Guide for more information regarding identity federation and contact the Objective Trapeze Support Team to start the process of configuring federated authentication.

Note:  If you configure federated authentication, you can set a registry entry with your domain to enable automatic authentication which saves your users from having to enter their email address when running Trapeze for the first time.

To enable create a String (REG_SZ) registry value named "lOP Id" with the value set to your domain

(e.g. "examplecouncil.state.gov.au") in the following location:

 

Computer\HKEY _CURRENT _USER\SOFTWARE\Onstream\Trapeze\3.0\Objective

Where to get the latest version

You can download the installer for the latest version of Objective Trapeze from the Trapeze Download Page.

We recommend using the 54-bit MSI Installer to install Objective Trapeze however in some rare cases you may need to use the 32-bit version of Objective Trapeze for compatibility with integrations, for example the Content Manager 32-bit client API.

Please contact the Objective Trapeze Support Team if you are unsure which installer to use.

Running the installer

For smaller deployments of Objective Trapeze you can run the MSI or the Executable installer on each machine and follow the on-screen steps.

For organisational deployments the MSI installer is recommended as it can be used to easily install Object Trapeze silently on many computers. The MSI installer will automatically run silently when invoked from Group Policy, however if running the installer from the command line or a script the '/q' parameter is necessary to request a silent installation.

e.g. msiexec Ii Objective Trapeze.msi Iq

For further MSI usage instructions please run "msiexec /?"

The steps to install via Group Policy are as follows:

Note:  The approach suggested here requires an Organisational Unit (OU) be defined to specify which computers the Group Policy Object (GPO) will be applied to, to create an OU and add computers to it please use Active Directory Users and Computers management console (Start> Administrative Tools> Active Directory Users and Computers). Though in large organizations its very likely that suitable OUs should already exist for the purpose of deployment, and it should just be a matter of identifying which OU the GPO will be linked to.

  1. On your network fileserver create a shared network folder where you will put the Objective Trapeze .msi installer

  2. Set permissions on the share folder to allow access to the installer package

  3. Copy the Objective Trapeze installer to your network shared folder

  4. Open the Group Policy Management Console (Start> Administrative Tools> Group Policy Management, or gpmc.msc)

  5. Right-Click Group Policy Object, and then click New

  6. Type a name for this new GPO and then press enter, e.g. Install Objective Trapeze

  7. Expand Group Policy Object, right click your new "Install Objective Trapeze" GPO and click Edit

  8. Under Computer Configuration, expand Policies and then expand Software Settings

  9. Right-click Software installation, point to New, and then click Package...

  10. In the Open dialog box, type the full UNC path of the shared installer package that you want. E.g. \\fileserver\share\ Trapeze.msi

  11. Click Open

  12. Click Assigned, and then click OK. The installer package is listed in the right-pane of the Group Policy window.

  13. Close the Group Policy Management Editor

  14. Back in Group Policy Management navigate to the Organisational Unit you want to apply this GPO to, right click the OU and then click Link an Existing GPO... Select the Install Objective Trapeze GPO and click OK

Note:  For further information about Window Installer deployment using Group Policy please refer to Microsoft documentation.