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Advanced Support: School IT administrator's guide

Overview
Installing RFB&D Download Manager
Internet security settings

Overview

To set up your school's networked computers to download RFB&D's AudioPlus books, you will need to:

Install and configure the RFB&D Download Manager software on each computer that will be used to download AudioPlus books
Set up Internet security settings to allow download of the books

Installing RFB&D Download Manager

RFB&D Download Manager is a small Windows-based application that simplifies the download of AudioPlus books. Each book consists of many files; these are packaged in ZIP files to facilitate download. RFB&D Download Manager keeps track of how many ZIP files are in each book; allows users to pause, resume and re-order downloads; handles interrupted downloads; and automatically unpackages the ZIP files into separate folders for each book.

The installer for RFB&D Download Manager can be downloaded at the following URL:

https://custhub.rfbd.org/Download/RFBDDownloadManager.exe

The installation is fairly simple; see the Installation Guide on the AudioPlus support website for full details. Some key points to consider:

Proxy support. RFB&D Download Manager downloads files using HTTP, and needs to know about any web proxy you may be using. If you use a proxy, choose the "Advanced" installation option to set up proxy support at installation time. You also can set up proxy settings at any time by choosing the "Options" item from the "View" menu.
Download locations. By default, RFB&D Download Manager will download ZIP files to "My Documents\RFBD Downloads." When it unpacks these, by default the audio tracks will be placed into "My Documents\RFBD Media." If you wish to change these locations, use the "Advanced" installation option to set them at install time, or choose the "Options" item from the "View" menu after installing the software.

Internet Security Settings

In order to download AudioPlus books, users will need to be able to download ZIP files from our content delivery network sites:

http://hwcdn.net
http://download.technicolor.com

Be sure that firewall and other internet security settings allow download from this site.

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