The PowerShell App Deployment Toolkit can be used to replace your WiseScript, VBScript and Batch wrapper scripts with one versatile, re-usable and extensible tool. If you need a hand getting started with PDT feel free to reach out.This article will serve as an informative guide and give you a clear understanding of how to perform silent or interactive installs and uninstalls of Autodesk AutoCAD 2022 using the Powershell App Deployment Toolkit. Honestly I would go down the PDT path, as it makes life so much easer, you are still able to use MEMC as it intended either user or computer targeted deployments and it is a process that is easy to repeat and understand once you get past the very small learning curve. The previous install was a bat file that had to to be run multiple times via software centre due to uncontrolled reboots and failed logic. Post install tasks included adding a whole bucket load of regkeys to HKU, and any user that had already logged in, installing office addins and replacing default shortcuts with custom shortcuts with specific icons and command line switches. It enabled me to map the drive, and also make sure outlook has been opened at least once(caused integration issues when running the app but not a install failure), than closed outlook and office apps for the actual install. Not an Autodesk install, but I recently had the absolute joy of packaging and deploying a legal App which install 10 odd prereqs, than a very specific Oracle package via a mapped drive pointing to a Linux server using Powershell Deployment Toolkit. Then I had to change the Collection.xml file change the toĪnd also need to be changed since they also point to the network share.Īfter these changes, I deployed it and tried it and everything worked as intended.Īnd I have given the domain computers read and write permissions on the network share \Installer.exe -i deploy -offline_mode -q -o. To fix this I created an Application (you can also create a package), the content location was set to ‘Image’ and not ‘Autocad’ folder (if you download a package you get an Autocad folder and inside it, there is an Image folder, log folder, install.bat, and summary.txt) then Installation program was set as As a general rule, if someone has flair, they almost definitely know what they're talking about.Ĭould be permissions - ccmagent will be running as system account, youĪpparently now when using Autodesk’s package builder with the "distribute" setting, the package builder uses absolute path (in my case) when I checked the ‘install.bat’ and ‘Collection.xml’, both of these files used absolute paths to my network share, so if you distribute the package with SCCM it will download the package but when it comes to running it, install.bat will attempt to run the installer on my network share.
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