Ventraq BIAS Installation Instructions
For information about this release, download the Releases Notes document.
To install the BIAS prototype, you will need to perform the following steps.
- Windows Installer Check - Pre-installation check to determine whether you have the appropriate version of Windows installer
- .NET Framework Version Check - Pre-installation check to determine whether you have an appropriate version of .NET Framework installed on your computer
- BIAS Installation Instructions - BIAS installation procedure that includes Parallel client installation instructions, downloading and installing the application, requesting a BIAS account, configuring BIAS and checking connectivity
If you are unsure of the version of your Windows installer package, the link below will download a small utility program to check the version of the windows installer
that is present on your system.
Once you click the link:
- You will be prompted to Open or Save the file, choose Open.
- You will be prompted to Run the file or not, choose to
Run the file.
- When the program runs a popup box will be presented with the version of the installer
on your system.
- Ensure that the installer version is
3.1 or higher
Windows Installer Check - when
prompted choose Open and then
Run.
If you DO NOT have version 3.1 or greater, download the latest installer from the Microsoft website and install it on your computer.
This page automatically detects whether your computer has the correct version of the .NET Framework necessary for the latest install of BIAS. The .NET framework is required to run BIAS and it is a ONE TIME install.
- If you need to install a newer version of the .NET Framework (from Microsoft), a link for downloading .NET Framework appears at the bottom of this page.
- If the correct version of .NET Framework is installed on your computer, a message appears indicating that your computer has a suitable version installed and a link for downloading BIAS appears at the bottom of this page.
In either case, click the hyperlink at the bottom of this page to continue.
Download the .NET Framework here before installing BIAS.
Download the BIAS Client