NOTICE

notice
  1. The installation of ZEN and other components is performed using the ZEISS Microscopy Installer. Download the ZEISS Microscopy Installer in the ZEISS Portal from the Download Center under https://portal.zeiss.com/download-center/softwares/mic.
  2. Do not install an older ZEN version over a newer ZEN version.
  3. If ZEN is already installed on your PC, during installation the current version will be uninstalled first.
  4. Depending on your PC configuration, the system requests an optional restart at the beginning of the installation.
  5. The system requests a restart at the end of the installation. This restart is required for the successful camera driver installation. You can postpone the restart until all components selected in the ZEISS Microscopy Installer are installed. After restart of the computer, reopen the ZEISS Microscopy Installer to install remaining components.
  6. In case of installing ZEN on a SEM system, make sure that SmartSEM is not running when installing ZEN.
  1. You have read the chapter Configuration of Security Software attentively.
  2. Your system is connected to the Internet.
  3. You have opened the ZEISS Microscopy Installer with admin rights and you are logged in.
  4. You have selected (default setting) the online installation, see ZEISS Microscopy Installer manual.
  1. Open the Install tab.
  2. The available products are displayed.
  3. On the left, select ZEN with the respective version number.
  4. The available components and tools for installation are displayed on the right side.
  5. On the right side, activate all components you want to install.
  6. If the 3rd party Python Tools are not installed, the machine learning based Intellesis functionalities will not work. This also includes their use in other parts of the software, like the neural networks in certain Bio Applications.
  7. If Docker Desktop is not installed, you cannot use containerized features like AI models for instance segmentation. For installation information, see Installing Docker Desktop with ZEISS Microscopy Installer.
  8. If you want to use functionality with systemwide Docker containers for the Spatial Biology toolkit, you need to activate the respective entry to install the containers.
  9. Activate I agree to the Terms and Conditions of the selected software and click Install.
  10. The selected components are downloaded and installed. The status is displayed in the ZEISS Microscopy Installer.
  11. After successful installation, close the ZEISS Microscopy Installer and restart your PC to complete the installation.
  1. After the restart of your computer the installation was successful. Start the software by clicking on the ZEN icon on your desktop.
  2. If you install ZEN on a computer for a SEM system, continue with Installing Remote API Client (for SEM systems).