Solution Installation and Feature Activation
1. The PeopleZen Setup Package
The PeopleZen setup package (the
roxority_PeopleZen.zip file) is a zipped archive containing:
- Deploy.exe — a graphical user interface (GUI) setup wizard for installing
and deploying, or retracting and uninstalling PeopleZen to and from a SharePoint
server farm, to be run by a farm administrator user on the "primary"
SharePoint farm or web front-end server — in a multi-server farm environment,
that is the server hosting Central Administration.
- docs — a folder containing this product documentation in Microsoft
Compiled HTML (CHM) and plain HTML formats.
- Additional supporting files that are required for Deploy.exe to run
and must neither be modified nor removed.
2. Installing the PeopleZen Solution Package
Run Deploy.exe (under user account credentials added to the Farm Administrators
group in Central Administration, on the "primary" SharePoint farm
or web front-end server — in a multi-server farm environment, that is the
server hosting Central Administration) and when the Welcome screen
is displayed, click Next to start a series of system checks. To proceed with
the installation, all system checks need to succeed:

Click Next and on the following screen, select the Web Applications to deploy
PeopleZen to. You can also de-select those Site Collections you do not
want the setup wizard, upon successful deployment, to activate the Web Part
Feature immediately for you on.
Note: even when PeopleZen is deployed in a Web Application, before
you can add and start using the PeopleZen User Profiles Web Part on
Web Part Pages inside a web site, the PeopleZen User Profiles Web Part Feature
needs to be activated for the parent Site Collection, as described in the
Feature Activation section below. For now, the setup wizard performs these
activations for you, depending on your selections.

Click Next to start the installation and wait for the deployment jobs and
Feature activation to complete. This process can take up to a few minutes.

After deployment and Feature activation have completed, review the installation
log:

Once you have successfully completed the setup wizard, you can start using the PeopleZen
User Profiles Web Part on Web Part Pages inside the previously selected Site
Collections immediately.

3. Activating the Site Collection Feature
The PeopleZen User Profiles Web Part is a SharePoint Site Collection-scoped
Feature, which needs to be 'activated' on each Site Collection it
is to be used in.
- Start from the Web Part Page you want to use the Web Part on. Select Site Settings
from the Site Actions menu.
- The Site Settings page contains the Site Collection Administration
section. In this section, click the Site collection features link. If it
doesn't exist, click the Go to top level site settings link in the Site
Collection Administration section instead, and on the root web's Site Settings
page now displayed, click the Site Collection Features link inside the Site
Collection Administration section.
- The Site Collection Features page should contain a row titled PeopleZen
Web Part.
- If it does, click the Activate button to make the Web Part available
to all web sites, Web Part galleries and Web Part Pages inside this site collection;
or click the Deactivate button to disable the Web Part throughout this site
collection.
- Note: if you do deactivate the Site Collection Feature, existing PeopleZen
Web Parts will continue to work: the feature activation status only controls whether
the Web Part is available inside your Site Web Part Galleries.
- If the row doesn't exist, the PeopleZen solution package was not
yet deployed to this web application. On the System Settings page (Operations
in SharePoint 2007) in the Central Administration, click Manage Farm Solutions
(Solution management in SharePoint 2007). On the Solution Management
page, click roxority_peoplezen_xyz.wsp (the xyz part will be different
depending on your SharePoint version) to open the Solution Properties page.
Click Deploy Solution, then select this Site Collection's parent web
application and click OK. (The deployment is delegated to a background job
scheduled to run either at the date and time specified, or as soon as possible.
Once started, it may take this job up to a few minutes to finish deployment.)