Installation guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Stand-Alone Installation
- Migrating and Customizing
- Migrate Custom Settings and Files from Previous Releases
- Customize AutoCAD with Initial Setup
- Export and Import Custom Settings from the Same Release
- Migrating and Customizing Issues
- What are the benefits of identifying my industry?
- How is this information being used?
- What happens if I skip or cancel Initial Setup?
- What are the benefits of selecting task-based tools?
- What is a workspace?
- How do I make changes to a workspace at a later time?
- What is a drawing template file?
- How do I modify drawing templates at a later time?
- What are the benefits of customizing AutoCAD?
- Network Administration and Deployment
- Preparing a Deployment
- Setting Up and Creating a Deployment
- Prepare for a Network Deployment
- Configure Individual Products
- Your Deployment Choices
- Enter User and Product Information
- Creating Log Files
- What Is Silent Mode?
- Select a License Type (Optional)
- Select the Installation Type (Optional)
- Select Installation Folders for Support Content
- Define Search Paths and File Locations (Optional)
- Install Additional Files (Optional)
- Specify User Preferences (Optional)
- Include Service Packs (Optional)
- Configure InfoCenter Communication Center (Optional)
- Allow Users to Access Online Resources (Optional)
- Create a Default Deployment
- Create a Custom Deployment
- Modify a Deployment (Optional)
- Point Users to the Administrative Image
- Distributing an Autodesk Program
- Troubleshooting
- General Installation Issues
- How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs to be updated?
- What is the text editor used for?
- What is the difference between a stand-alone license and a network license?
- What is the benefit of using a network licensed version of the software?
- What features get installed during a Typical or Custom installation?
- How do I access my product documentation?
- What is SAMreport-Lite?
- Deployment Issues
- Is there a checklist I can refer to when performing a deployment?
- Where should deployments be located?
- What are the default search paths and file location settings?
- How will changing the support file locations affect my search paths?
- Along with defining search paths and file location, can files be added?
- Where can I check if service packs are available for my software?
- How do I extract an MSP file?
- Can Online Resource settings be modified later?
- Where can I learn about InfoCenter?
- What are information channels?
- What are the benefits to enabling CAD Manager Channels?
- What are RSS feeds and how do they benefit my installation?
- Where can I learn about InfoCenter search locations?
- How do I set or customize search locations?
- Networking Issues
- When installing tools and utilities, which selections are applicable for a multi-seat stand-alone installation?
- When installing tools and utilities, which selections are applicable for a stand-alone installation?
- Where do I find my server name?
- When specifying user workstation settings, I am given the option to specify a profile. What are profiles?
- Can I create custom desktop shortcuts?
- What happens when you choose to append or merge service packs?
- What is an administrative image (MSI) file?
- What is the impact of selecting all products for the administrative image, and can I add products later?
- Uninstall and Maintenance Issues
- When adding or removing features, how can I tell what features get installed by default?
- Is it possible to change the installation folder when adding or removing features?
- When should I reinstall the product instead of a repair?
- Do I need my original disc(s) to reinstall my product?
- After repairing my installation, is it possible to recover my settings?
- When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my system?
- General Installation Issues
- Glossary
- Index
Allow Users to Access Online Resources (Optional) . . . . . 63
Create a Default Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Create a Custom Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Modify a Deployment (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Point Users to the Administrative Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Chapter 4 Distributing an Autodesk Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Use Scripts to Deploy the Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
A Sample Installation Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Use Switches and Flags in Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Run Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Use Group Policies to Run a Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Use Group Policies to Assign a Deployment to Computers . . . . 82
Verify a Group Policy Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Use Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager to Install a
Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Tasks for Deploying Autodesk Software with SCCM . . . . . . . . 89
Set Up a Source Directory Using the Deployment Wizard . . . . . 90
Create the SCCM Software Installation Package . . . . . . . . . . 90
Distribute the Product Using Imaging Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Use a Master Image to Distribute Multi-Seat Stand-Alone
Products to Multiple Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Use a Master Image to Distribute Network Licensed Products to
Multiple Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Restore the Master Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Clean a Master System and Restore the Operating System . . . . . 95
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
General Installation Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs to be
updated? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
What is the text editor used for? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
What is the difference between a stand-alone license and a
network license? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
What is the benefit of using a network licensed version of the
software? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
What features get installed during a Typical or Custom
installation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
How do I access my product documentation? . . . . . . . . . . 100
What is SAMreport-Lite? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Deployment Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Is there a checklist I can refer to when performing a
deployment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Where should deployments be located? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
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