SourceGear Vault Install On XP Pro

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irasmith

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Im using XP Pro on my machine here at home, just installed SP2 last night and everything seems to be trucking along just fine.

This evening I tried to install SourceGrear Vault, a few of you had mentioned this would be a good candidate for a version control system and I really wanted to get started with it and see how it worked.

The install of the server portion seemed to go just fine. I did get to the point where you type in http://localhost/VaultService and the web page for it came up just fine.

It was on this web page that there was a link to download and install the admin tool and the client tool. I thought I would do both since this is going to be the machine I use it on to track things for here at home. I downloaded the two msi files, but I could not install them.

When I went to click on them I received a message that they had not been digitally signed. I clicked Ok to press on since I knew where the files had come from.

But that was as far as I got because I then received an error message stating "The System Admin has set policies to prevent this installation".

I was on my system as myself, which I did check to make sure was set as the administrative user of the sytem.

Apparently there are some security settings in SP2 for XP that come by default set to disallow the running of msi files.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to getting things set so that I can install these or have I made a mistake and Sourcegear Vault will not run on XP?

Thanks
 
Seems I overlooked something, which I try very hard not to do.

The admin tool did install for me during the server install, since that is the file I downloaded and the option I elected to take when the install began. I was just not looking in program files for the program and now that I have I find it right there.

This is looking great. When I am more rested I will begin working with it and see how things go. I really think Im going to like this :)
 
SourceGears download page for Vault is a bit confusing. It took me a minute to realize what files I needed to download, and even then, I wasnt positive.
 
Actually, it wasnt the download page that got me. I figured that one out just fine and pretty quickly to after scanning the descriptions of the download files.

What threw me for a momentary loop was the page you go to after the install is done. The http://localhost/VaultService page. I became confused there when it indicated the next step was to download and install the admin client and the vault client.

After I made my initial post and did a double take on the thinking about things, that is when I thought to look in the Start - Programs area and found everything was already installed.

I havent had the time yet to work with it a lot, but I like what I have seen of it and know I will give it a good honest try for a source code control solution. So I am happy with things after my momentary confusion moment. :)
 
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