Installing Personal Communications iSeries

Personal Communications provides four installation options:

Installation to a local hard drive, including installing to run from source, where source medium is a installation image. See Installing to a Local Hard Drive for more information.
Administrative installation, including installing or running from source, where source medium is a network server. See Administrative Installation for more information.
Remote installation using Microsoft® Systems Management Server (SMS). See Remote Installation of Personal Communications for more information.
Remote installation using Tivoli® Software Distribution. See Considerations for Tivoli Software Distribution Support, for more information.
Installation and Uninstallation of IBM Personal Communications must be done manually using setup.exe or by using SCCM (Deployment tool). as the configuration and prerequisite checks will happen only with setup.exe.

Personal Communications also offers the ability to customize the installation procedure. For information on customizing with initialization file processing, including performing silent installations, see Installing Personal Communications iSeries Using an Initialization (response) File.

This chapter describes the general installation procedure for all options and the specific procedure for installing to a local hard drive. Typical and custom setups are described in this chapter, as well as silent installation options. Additionally, this chapter provides an introduction to the Microsoft® Windows Installer service.