Table 1. Symphony and Symphony DE version 5.0 on the following Windows operating systems:
Operating System
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition
Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition
Windows XP
Windows XP Professional
Windows 2000
Windows 2000 Server
Windows 2000 Professional
Windows Vista
Windows Vista Business
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition
Install Excel
Install Excel on all compute hosts. Refer to Excel documentation for more details.
Ensure that all Microsoft Office components are installed on each compute host. Do not use the "install on first use" option during installation. This option causes Excel to pop up dialogs that cannot be programmatically removed.
Log onto all compute hosts at least once with the user account under which Symphony workload will be executed, to initialize the data associated with this user profile.
Set Excel macro security to Low. This prevents security dialogs from displaying. For Excel 2000, 2002, and 2003, go to Tools > Macro > Security. For Excel 2007, on the Developer tab, in the Code group, click Macro Security.
Install Symphony
Install Symphony DE on the client host and Symphony on the compute and management hosts. The system environment variable SOAM_HOME should point to the Symphony DE installation directory.