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Resources for a Successful Breeze Deployment

Macromedia Breeze consists of three components: the Breeze Presentation platform, Breeze Training, and 
Breeze Live. Depending on the configuration purchased, you may be installing one, two, or all three of the 
components. The following are brief descriptions of the components:

Breeze Presentation platform

  The Breeze Presentation platform makes it possible to quickly create 

multimedia presentations that combine audio and video with slides and graphics.

Breeze Training

  Breeze Training lets you create courses, enroll students, and track and monitor student 

and course outcomes. 

Breeze Live

  Breeze Live lets you conduct online real-time meetings in which you can show multimedia 

presentations and broadcast live audio and video to participants. 
This chapter describes the variety of resources available to ensure successful deployment of the 
components within your organization.

Guide to documentation and additional resources

Macromedia Breeze contains a variety of media to help you learn how to use the components quickly. 

About the electronic manuals and online help

In addition to this installation guide, the following electronic manuals and online help systems are 
available:

Note: 

The relevance of these guides to users depends on the modules installed on the Breeze Presentation platform, 

the type of user (such as meeting content manager, information technology engineer, or course presenter), and the 
user’s Breeze account permissions.

Using the Breeze Manager 

describes how to use the administration, presentation, and training 

components of Breeze. You can access Using the Breeze Manager documentation from the Breeze 
Manager Home page, and from the Help link in the Breeze Manager.

Using the Breeze Plug-In for PowerPoint 

describes use of the plug-in that allows users to create Breeze 

presentations from PowerPoint. You can access Using the Breeze Plug-In for Powerpoint 
documentation from the Breeze Manager Home page, and from the Breeze menu in PowerPoint by 
selecting Breeze > Help.

Using the Breeze Publish Wizard 

includes procedures for publishing Breeze presentations created in 

PowerPoint to your Breeze server. You can access Using the Breeze Publish Wizard documentation 
from the Breeze Manager Home page, and from the Help button in the Publish Wizard.

Breeze Live User Guide for Meeting Presenters 

includes information about using the Breeze web 

application to host online real-time meetings. The documentation includes procedures that 
demonstrate the simplicity of adding slides, Flash SWF files, images, live audio and video to your 
presentation.You can access Breeze Live User Guide documentation from the Breeze Manager 
Home page, and from the Help menu within a Breeze Live meeting room (when you enter as a 
presenter) by selecting Meeting > Help. 

Breeze Live User Guide for Meeting Participants 

includes information relevant to users participating 

in an online real-time meeting. Breeze Live offers meeting participants a variety of options to make 
their experience truly participatory, including the ability to send messages and questions to 
presenters and to each other, and the ability to participate through live video and audio. You can 
access the Breeze Live User Guide documentation from the Breeze Manager Home page, and from 
the Help menu within a Breeze Live meeting room (when you enter as a participant) by selecting 
Meeting > Help.

To determine what documentation is relevant to your needs, consult the following table for guidelines:

Breeze user type

Recommended reading

Information technology (IT) engineer

Breeze Installation Guide

Review the system requirements in all other user 
guides.

Content managers in charge of overall content within 
Breeze, and who may add users and permissions

Using the Breeze Manager

Breeze Live User Guide for Meeting Presenters

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Страница 1: ...Installation Guide...

Страница 2: ...arks or trade names of Macromedia Inc or other entities and may be registered in certain jurisdictions including internationally Third Party Information This guide contains links to third party websit...

Страница 3: ...0 Installing Breeze 11 Using the Breeze installer 11 Completing an aborted installation 14 Starting and stopping Breeze components 14 Uninstalling Macromedia Breeze 14 Setting Up the Breeze Database 1...

Страница 4: ...e Breeze Live 24 Appendix A Clustering Breeze Presentation Platforms 26 Setting up a cluster of Breeze Presentation platforms 26 Verifying failover for HTTP requests 27 Verifying replication of conten...

Страница 5: ...sers to create Breeze presentations from PowerPoint You can access Using the Breeze Plug In for Powerpoint documentation from the Breeze Manager Home page and from the Breeze menu in PowerPoint by sel...

Страница 6: ...at www macromedia com software breeze is updated regularly with the latest information on Breeze including FAQs white papers testimonials and tips Breeze Documentation Center The Breeze Documentation...

Страница 7: ...n requirements This section lists hardware and software requirements for installing the Breeze components It covers the following topics Breeze Presentation platform installation requirements on page...

Страница 8: ...ion platform is installed the Presentation platform cannot convert PowerPoint presentations to Breeze Flash presentations For instructions on verifying that a printer driver is installed and installin...

Страница 9: ...in a Breeze Live stand alone configuration 500 MB for Breeze Live installation Initially 80 GB for Breeze Live meeting files Disk space requirements increase as more Breeze Live meetings are stored So...

Страница 10: ...so because of licensing restrictions you can only install the Breeze database engine on a single processor computer The Breeze database engine has a command line interface for managing and querying th...

Страница 11: ...e double click the setup exe file in the installation DVD s root folder The installer Welcome window appears 2 Click Next The License Agreement window appears 3 Click Yes to accept the licensing terms...

Страница 12: ...ame computer If you install the Breeze database engine it must be installed at the same time and on the same computer as the Breeze Presentation platform Presentation platform and Breeze Live The foll...

Страница 13: ...ndow appears and shows the installer s progress Installing the software may take a few minutes If you elected to install the Breeze database engine the installer for the Breeze database engine starts...

Страница 14: ...e Breeze components you must make sure that they have been properly configured and that either the Breeze database engine or Microsoft SQL Server is running To start the Breeze Presentation platform S...

Страница 15: ...m configuration file custom ini To set configuration properties for the Breeze database when you use Microsoft SQL Server 2000 1 Before you start the Breeze Presentation platform you must edit the Bre...

Страница 16: ...ww microsoft com office ork 2000 five 75t2_6 htm You should regularly back up the content folder in the following location Boot drive Breeze content Periodically back up the entire Breeze root directo...

Страница 17: ...istrator The following example shows how you can set this property ADMIN_EMAIL jsmith mycompany com ADMIN_PASSWORD none The password to use for primary administrative access to the Breeze Manager SYST...

Страница 18: ...ssociated with Breeze to use for receiving HTTP messages FCS_CONTENT_PATH fileserver bre ezeshare cont ent If you have installed Breeze Live and the Breeze Presentation platform on separate computers...

Страница 19: ...Breeze Live and the Breeze Presentation platform run as the Breeze user you created this privilege lets them write files to the folder and its subfolders 5 Set the FCS_CONTENT_PATH property in the Bre...

Страница 20: ...e account s password and a confirmation of the password 9 Restart the Macromedia Breeze Application Service for your changes to take effect 10 On the Breeze Live host computer follow the procedure giv...

Страница 21: ...can use Breeze Training on page 24 6 If you have installed Breeze Live verify that you can use it see Verifying that you can use Breeze Live on page 24 If you receive error messages or cannot perform...

Страница 22: ...e Welcome page for Macromedia Breeze appears Under the Start Using Macromedia Breeze heading there is a link for logging in to Breeze and a link for downloading the Macromedia Breeze Plug In for Micro...

Страница 23: ...figuring the Breeze Presentation Platform on page 17 The URL takes you to the Breeze Welcome page from which you can download the Breeze Plug In for PowerPoint which is required in the next section Ve...

Страница 24: ...an use the Breeze Presentation platform on page 23 4 In the Breeze Manager click the Courses tab to open the Courses page and then click New Course 5 In the Course wizard follow the steps to create a...

Страница 25: ...g is held 6 When the meeting invitation arrives click the meeting link If the Presenter Add In for Breeze is not installed on your computer the following window appears 7 If the Presenter Add In for B...

Страница 26: ...luster can take over and supply the same content Note If you are using the Breeze Live stand alone configuration all references to the Breeze Presentation platform in this appendix apply also to the B...

Страница 27: ...ssing for the Breeze Manager fails and you can continue to use the Breeze Manager without logging in again and without interruption failover is successful To verify failover for HTTP requests in a Bre...

Страница 28: ...ter1 a Make sure that you are a member of the Account Authors user group To upload content even if you are an account administrator you must also be a member of the Account Authors user group As an ac...

Страница 29: ...Presentation platform in this appendix also apply to the Breeze application server To set up a Breeze Live cluster for load balancing and failover 1 Install Breeze Live on each computer that will be...

Страница 30: ...hat the Breeze user account can start the service a Depending on your operating system do one of the following For Windows XP select Start Control Panel Administrative Tools Services Shortcut For Wind...

Страница 31: ...ting room 1 or similar text for identification purposes To enter text in the Note pod simply place the cursor in the Note pod and start typing 4 Repeat steps 1 and 2 to create a new meeting and a Note...

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