Installing the NICE DCV Server on Windows - NICE DCV
Using the wizardUnattended installation
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Installing the NICE DCV Server on Windows

You can use an installation wizard to install the NICE DCV server on a Windows host server. The wizard guides you through a series of steps that show how to customize your NICE DCV server installation. Alternatively, you can use the command line to perform an unattended installation. This uses default settings to automate the installation procedure.

Using the wizard

Use the NICE DCV server installation wizard for a guided installation.

To install the NICE DCV server on Windows using the wizard

  1. Launch and connect to the server on which to install the NICE DCV server.

  2. Download the NICE DCV server installer from the NICE DCV website.

    Note

    The NICE DCV server is available only in a 64-bit version and supported on 64-bit Windows operating systems.

    Tip

    The latest packages page of the download website contains links that always point to the newest available version. You can use these links to automatically retrieve the newest NICE DCV packages.

  3. Run nice-dcv-server-x64-Release-2023.1-version_number.msi.

  4. On the Welcome screen, choose Next.

  5. On the End-User License Agreement screen, read the license agreement. If you accept the terms, select the I accept the terms in the License Agreement check box, and then choose Next.

  6. (Optional) configure which components will be installed by selecting items in the Components Selection screen. To mark a component for installation, select the item and choose Will be installed on local hard drive. To omit a component from the installation select the item and choose Entire feature will be unavailable.

  7. On the DCV Service Configuration screen:

    1. (Optional) To manually configure your server's firewall to allow communication over the required port, select No, I will manually configure my firewall later.

    2. (Optional) To manually start the NICE DCV server after the installation, select No, I want to start a DCV Service manually. If you select this option, you can't start a console session automatically after the installation is complete. If you select this option, step 9 is skipped.

  8. Choose Next.

  9. On the DCV Session Management Configuration screen, specify the owner for the automatic console session. Or, to prevent the automatic console session from starting after the installation is complete, select No, I will create the session manually.

    Note

    Complete this step only if you previously chose to allow the server to start automatically.

  10. Choose Install.

Unattended installation

By default, the unattended installation does the following:

  • Adds a firewall rule to allow communication over port 8443.

  • Enables NICE DCV server auto-start.

  • Creates an automatic console session.

  • Sets the console session owner to the user who performs the installation.

You can override the default actions by appending the following options to the installation command:

  • DISABLE_FIREWALL=1 — Prevents the installer from adding the firewall rule.

  • DISABLE_SERVER_AUTOSTART=1 — Prevents the NICE DCV server from starting automatically after the installation.

  • DISABLE_AUTOMATIC_SESSION_CREATION=1 — Prevents the installer from starting the automatic console session.

  • AUTOMATIC_SESSION_OWNER=owner_name — Specifies a different owner for the automatic console session.

  • ADDLOCAL=component_list — Adds elements to the set of elements to be installed.

  • REMOVE=component_list — Removes elements from the set of elements to be installed.

    Note

    The REMOVE option is evaluated after the ADDLOCAL option. An element that's on both lists isn't installed.

The component_list is a comma-separated list that can contain the following values:

  • audioMicDriver: Microphone driver

  • audioSpkDriver: Speaker driver

  • printerDriver: Printer driver

  • usbDriver: USB device remotization driver (Disabled by default)

  • webcamDriver: Webcam driver

  • gamepadDriver: Gamepad driver

  • webClient: Web client

  • webauthn: Webauthn Redirection

  • ALL: All components

To install the NICE DCV server on Windows using an unattended installation

  1. Launch and connect to the server that you intend to install the NICE DCV server on.

  2. Download the NICE DCV server installer from the NICE website.

    Note

    The NICE DCV server is available only in a 64-bit version and supported on 64-bit Windows operating systems.

  3. Open a command prompt window and navigate to the folder where you downloaded the installer.

  4. Run the unattended installer as seen in one of the following examples:

    • Install default components:

      C:\>  msiexec.exe /i nice-dcv-server-x64-Release-2023.1-version_number.msi
/quiet /norestart /l*v dcv_install_msi.log

    • Install all components:

      C:\>  msiexec.exe /i nice-dcv-server-x64-Release-2023.1-version_number.msi
ADDLOCAL=ALL /quiet /norestart /l*v dcv_install_msi.log

    • Install a subset of components:

      C:\>  msiexec.exe /i nice-dcv-server-x64-Release-2023.1-version_number.msi
ADDLOCAL=audioMicDriver,audioSpkDriver,printerDriver,webcamDriver /quiet /norestart /l*v dcv_install_msi.log