However, in the most recent version of the software while the deployment.properties file still gets created through the installer in the directory specified above, the PKG installer as part of its install process now actively looks for a deployment.properties file in the same directory as the PKG installer. As a result, you could run the TI-SmartView PKG installer and then install a separately packaged deployment.properties file to this directory so that when a user launched the application for the first time it became activated.
This file is essentially a template in order to automatically activate a perpetual serial number when the software was launched for the first time. When TI-SmartView CE is installed via its install PKG, a deployment.properties file gets created in /Library/Application Support/TI-SmartView CE 84/res/. I recently started testing some of our existing software on the latest version of macOS Sierra (10.12.5) and ran into an issue with the TI-SmartView CE emulator software for Mac when trying to activate with our institution’s license that was a result of a change Texas Instruments had made to the software installer that wasn’t communicated and is somewhat buried line in their software installation and activation knowledge base article. This is based on a post I made on Jamfnation back in March.
