Overview

This article explains how to install Macrium SiteDeploy on a PC that isn’t connected to the internet and activate a license key offline. For more information on how to install Macrium SiteDeploy on a PC that has an internet connection, please see here. Offline activation of Macrium SiteDeploy can be performed with both subscription and perpetual licenses.

Installing SiteDeploy

First, log in to your Macrium Account here on a computer with an internet connection. If you have not already created a Macrium Account, learn more here. On the ‘Overview’ or ‘Downloads’ page, navigate to the product card for SiteDeploy. Select ‘Download’ then select '64-bit' to start the download of the installer.

If you are trialling Macrium SiteDeploy, the Site Manager installer can be downloaded here.

Once the download has been completed, move the installer to the offline computer and run the installer. 

The first time that Macrium Site Manager is launched, the first run wizard will be displayed. On the first page of the wizard, select ‘SiteDeploy’ to enable Macrium Site Manager’s deployment features. For more information on enabling Macrium Site Manager’s backup and restore features, please refer to the Macrium Site Manager knowledgebase here.

On the ‘Licenses’ page of the first-run wizard, select 'Add Key' then enter the SiteDeploy license key that will be offline activated from your Macrium Account:

Since the SiteDeploy server does not have an internet connection, selecting 'Add' will open the offline activation wizard:

Take note of the 'Activation Code' that is shown in this window.

In the Macrium Account, select ‘Activate Licenses Offline’ next to the license key that was entered into the offline SiteDeploy server,

In the window that opens, enter the 'Activation Code' from the offline SiteDeploy server then select ‘Offline Activate’ to offline activate the license.

Note: Once the offline activation of the license has been performed it cannot be undone. If the wrong license is offline activated, or the computer where the license was offline activated is no longer available, please contact our support team here.

An offline key will now have been created. This offline key can be copied to the clipboard or downloaded to a .txt file:

Enter the offline key into the offline SiteDeploy server, then select 'Activate Key' to complete the offline license activation.

The following message will be displayed to indicate that the offline key has been added successfully:

On the final page of the first run wizard, select the configuration for Macrium Site Manager:

The recommended security level is 'Simple Setup' for internal and test installations and 'Secure Setup' for production environments. 'Import Setup File' may also be chosen to import a saved configuration from another Site Manager server.

Select ‘Finish’ to complete the setup of Macrium SiteDeploy. The SiteDeploy server will automatically restart, depending on the options that were selected, you will then be prompted to log in to SiteDeploy.

The page will automatically refresh, depending on the options that were selected, you may be prompted to log in to SiteDeploy. The offline installation and license activation is now complete.

The offline SiteDeploy license key can be viewed in your Macrium Account by selecting the three dots next to the license, then selecting 'View Offline Key'.

Creating Deployment Media Offline

The deployment media is a bootable environment that is used to create and deploy golden images with Macrium SiteDeploy. To create the deployment media, Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) is used as the base WIM; this requires components to be downloaded from Microsoft. These components are usually downloaded automatically, however, since the SiteDeploy server does not have an internet connection, the components will need to be downloaded on a computer with an internet connection and then moved to the SiteDeploy server manually. 

There are four WinPE versions that SiteDeploy uses when creating deployment media:

Windows PE 3.1 - 64bit

Windows PE 3.1 - 32bit

Windows PE 10 - 64bit

Windows PE 10 - 32bit

To download these components, first, download the Macrium Reflect Download Agent on a computer that has an internet connection.

In the Macrium Reflect Download Agent, select ‘Options’ to change the components that will be downloaded.

In the window that opens, use the ‘Select Download Option’ dropdown to select the relevant Windows PE component.

Select ‘Download’ to download the specified components.

A .zip file will be downloaded from Microsoft that contains the relevant PE components. Repeat this step for each of the PE components listed above.

These zip file should then be placed in the default folder below on the SiteDeploy server:

C:\ProgramData\Macrium\SiteManager\RescueMedia\pefiles

Note: This path may be different depending on the 'Rescue Media Working Directory' setting in the SiteDeploy server settings.

Following this, the rescue media can be created on the ‘Deployment Media’ tab of the SiteDeploy console. This article contains more information about creating deployment media in Macrium SiteDeploy.