Who is this article for?

IT Staff installing Ideagen Mail Manager for their organisation.

Local Admin permissions are required.

To apply a set of settings to multiple machines running Ideagen Mail Manager, you can create a shared configuration folder. This article shows you how to set that up.

1. Creating Shared Config
2. Checking Shared Config

1. Creating Shared Config

To set up shared configuration:

1. Install Ideagen Mail Manager on a local machine.
2. Go to: C:\Users\User name\AppData\Local\Mail Manager\Program Files\Sample.
3. Copy the Ideagen Mail Manager Config folder to your chosen Network location.
4. Go to: C:\Users\User name\AppData\Local\Mail Manager\Program Files\x86.
5. Create shortcut of Ideagen Mail Manager.Preferences.exe in the Network location.
6. Copy the installation.msi to the Network location.
7. Copy msiconfigure.exe to the Network location.
8. Add required Collections in Ideagen Mail Manager.
9. Save the .mmcollection files to the Network location.
10. Run Ideagen Mail Manager.Preferences.exe.
11. Set up the required settings.
12. Add required Collections to the collections.txt file at the Network location.
13. Run msiconfigure.exe.
14. Enter the Licence ID, Password, and Network Path.
15. Uninstall Ideagen Mail Manager from the local machine.
16. Install Ideagen Mail Manager from the configured .msi at the Network location.

2. Checking Shared Config

To check that the setup has been successful:

1. Open Ideagen Mail Manager.
2. Select Status.
3. Open Session Log.

The path to the Shared Configuration Folder will be specified on the second line. All installs should have picked up the set configuration and Collections.

Your Network location can be set to read-only for users if necessary, as they may not need to make any changes to the shared config.