Just read the Network Admin Guide provided by Autodesk. It covers all this as well as SCCM and GPO deployments. For SCCM you have to package the custom DirectX installer separately and deploy… Read More

Response to rainmakers99's entry. Note most of this 2010 info is also valid for 2011 The deployment tool creates two MSI files and only one MST. As stated, the GPO msi is the correct one to us… Read More

Here is the Update to rainmakers99 Post: to install over come the issue with language pack in step 4: us the following commandline to install teh Lang pack msiexec /i "C:\acad\EN-US\acadLP.ms… Read More

AutoDesk created a nice deployment app suite. However, it does require the desktop to be loaded. (i.e. a user has to be logged in) It also requires a direct reboot. Another note is that the… Read More

Heres the same info Paul posted, but without the vbscript and in batch script form...so its easier to use and read. The VBscript was missing a couple of spaces in the command line, so it wouldn… Read More

UNINSTALL Dim WshShell Dim objFSO Set WshShell = CreateObject("wscript.shell") Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") WshShell.Run "c:\windows\system32\msiexec.e… Read More

Below is the script from the Autocad 2010 doco to do the install, with some minor changes. We have used the script below to deploy using SMS. To use, just change the xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx entr… Read More