The information below applies only to PCS 7 V6.x. More cross-version information is available in Entry ID: 2334224.

• Which settings must be made before installing SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.x on the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system?
• Which language versions of Microsoft Windows are released for SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.x?
• Which Microsoft Windows 2000 MUI updates are released for PCS 7 V6.x?
• Which operating system is required for which type of computer (ES/OS) with PCS 7 V6.x?
• Important information on the Microsoft Patches KB829019 (Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0) and KB887616 (Office 2003 Service Pack 2)

Which settings must be made before installing SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.x on the Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system?

Configuration Notes:
After successfully installing the required version of MS Windows you must make the following settings on the PC before installing SIMATIC PCS 7 version V6.x.  
 

No.	Step	Note
1	If necessary, install Service Pack for version of MS Windows operating system (for whether and which Service Pack is required see Entry ID: 2334224)	CD/DVD is included in the delivery package SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.
2	Install Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1                                     (Exception: Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and Windows XP, see Entry ID: 2334224)	CD/DVD is included in the delivery package SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.
3	Install Microsoft SQL Server 2000 incl. SP3 or  SP3a (as from SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.1 SP1)	CD/DVD is included in the delivery package SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.
4	Install Message Queuing Services
5	Disable Index Service
6	Disable Internet Information Service (IIS) (Exceptions: Central Archive Server, StoragePlus Server, OS Web Server).
7	If necessary, install other MS Security Patches and Hotfixes (for whether and which Security Pack or Hotfix is required see Entry ID: 2334224 - footnotes)

If these requirements are not met, installation of PCS 7 V6 does not start or is aborted later.

Note:
Please note the following when installing a computer that is to be integrated into a domain:

• The Message Queuing Services may only be installed once the computer has been incorporated in the domain.
• If you incorporate the computer into the domain subsequently, then you must reinstall the Message Queuing Services.

Detailed information on the installation, in particular of the IIS (with Central Archive Server or StoragePlus) and Message Queuing (especially with Windows 2000 Server) is available in the documents "PCS 7 - PC Configuration and Authorization", "PCS 7 - System Documentation - Readme" and in the Readme.wri file.

By way of example, we have listed the procedure for installing the Message Queuing Services for MS Windows 2000 Professional. When installing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, you can make the setting during Setup.
 

No.	Procedure
1	Open the Control Panel via "Start > Settings > Control Panel".
2	Open "Software" with a double-click.
3	In the "Software" dialog window you select the setting "Add/Remove Windows Components". Fig. 01
4	In the dialog window that opens you set a check mark for "Message Queuing Services" and close the dialog with "Next". Note:  You need the MS Windows 2000 installation CD. Fig. 02

Repeat steps 1 to 3 to disable/check the system settings of the Index Service and the Internet Information Service (IIS). Then depending on the current computer settings you disable the two options as shown in the figure below.

Fig. 03

Which language versions of Microsoft Windows are released for SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.x?

Valid up to and including SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.1
The language versions MUI (Multilingual User Interface (tested with German, English and French)), German, English and French of the Microsoft Windows operating systems have been released and tested for SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.x. As per the SIMATIC PCS 7 Catalog, MUI versions are supplied by default with Bundle PCs. Please also note the correlation between PCS 7 and the Windows operating system in Entry ID: 2334224.

Valid up as from SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.1 SP1
The language versions MUI (Multilingual User Interface (tested with German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and (simplified) Chinese)), German, English and French of the Microsoft Windows operating systems have been released and tested for SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.1 SP1 and higher. As per the SIMATIC PCS 7 Catalog, MUI versions are supplied by default with Bundle PCs. Please also note the correlation between PCS 7 and the Windows operating system in Entry ID: 2334224.
Note:
With the Chinese language setting of the MUI version, please refer to the notes in "Readme.wri", section 1.4.

Which Microsoft Windows 2000 MUI updates are released for PCS 7 V6.x?

The Microsoft Windows 2000 MUI Update is released for SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.0 + SP1 and higher.

In Windows 2000 with Multilingual User Interface (MUI), menus, window bars and the Internet Explorer contain English texts although the setting has been changed in the Regional and Language Options to menus and dialogs in German. The localization coverage by Microsoft is only about 90% in Windows 2000, as described in English at http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/faqs/MUIFaq.mspx#MUIques4.

"..The percentage of localization coverage in Windows 2000 with MUI is about 90%. In Windows 2000 with MUI, there are many visible strings that appear in English. One of the most noticeable areas is the Start Menu. This is because the Start Menu is populated directly using the file names of folders and link files created at setup time. They appear in English even if you are running on a MUI system with Japanese User Interface, as English was the original installation language."

A solution for Internet Explorer 6 is also available. This is described in an article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;264550 (English)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;de;264550 (German)

Which operating system is required for which type of computer (ES/OS) with PCS 7 V6.x?
he following Microsoft operating systems are required for the various PCS 7 computers depending on their implementation:
  

SIMATIC PCS 7 V6.x	Microsoft Installation
Engineering Station	Windows 2000 Professional 1) Windows XP Professional 1) Windows 2000 Server (Multiproject Engineering) 2) Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (Multiproject Engineering) 2)
Operator System - Single-user	Windows 2000 Professional Windows XP Professional
Operator System - Terminal (client)	Windows 2000 Professional Windows XP Professional
Operator System - Server	Windows 2000 Server Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
SIMATIC Batch - Single-user	Windows 2000 Professional Windows XP Professional
SIMATIC Batch - Terminal (client)	Windows 2000 Professional Windows XP Professional
SIMATIC Batch - Server	Windows 2000 Server Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Central Archive Server (as from V6.1)	Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition

1)	Also for Multiproject Engineering with distributed storage of subprojects
2)	Multiproject Engineering with central storage of the project on a server

Note:
This table only shows the general requirements. More details regarding which versions of PCS 7 are compatible with which versions of Windows operating systems are available in Entry ID: 2334224 .

Only the ES (ES server) on which the project is located must have a Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition license. For those Engineering Stations that access the projects stored on the ES server it is sufficient to have a Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional license.

More information on this is available in the appendix of the manual "PCS 7 - PC Configuration and Authorization" in Entry ID: 21406001 and Entry ID: 15236125.

Important information on the Microsoft Patches KB829019 (Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0) and KB887616 (Office 2003 Service Pack 2)
We would like to point out that in our PCS 7 system test incompatibilities were discovered with the following Microsoft Patches in conjunction with CAS (Central Archive Server) and Storage Plus in the PCS 7 V6.1 + SP1 software environment.
Patch KB829019 contains a newer version (V2.0) of .NET Framework and Patch KB887616 contains the Service Pack 2 of Office 2003.
The incompatibility is caused by .NET Framework V2.0 and impairs the trend display in the StoragePlus WebViewer.
Therefore, do not install these Microsoft patches and generally prevent installation of .NET Framework V2.0 on PCS 7 V6.1 + SP1 systems.

Please note when implementing a Windows Software Update Server that under certain circumstances the patches are installed automatically in the PCS 7 system by the Microsoft Windows Software Update Service if you do not configure the Windows Software Update Service accordingly.
Therefore you should make the necessary technical arrangements so that Microsoft patches KB829019 and KB887616 cannot be installed automatically and also not manually in PCS 7 systems.

Note:
In the case of the IL 43 PC bundles released for PCS 7 V6.1 + SP1 in the ST PCS 7 catalog, the Automatic Update service is disabled by default for security reasons. Please note that this Automatic Update service is switched on in most other PCs!

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