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Change the administrative path to the clients

Question asked by Marco Vedovato on Nov 27, 2007
Latest reply on Nov 29, 2007 by Brian Hughes

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Hi, it's the first time that write in this forum...and is the firsttime that install Solidwork from administrative image...I thinkthat i've read all documentation and post but i have a smalldoubt.
Suppose that i use a simple pc (with Windows XP SP2) for create anddeploy to clients the administrative image of SW2007 SP4.0, ok nowmy clients use SW2007 SP4.0 happily.....
I want update to SP5.0...., ok it's very simple, update onlyadministrative image and when client start solidwork automaticallyupdate to SP5.0, but there is a little problem, meanwhile i'vechange my pc...
ok i can recreate the administrative image but my clients don'tupdates automatically....
Now i must change the first administrative path with the new pathto the clients, there is a registry key for this ?
How can I solve this problem

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Martin Stokes Nov 27, 2007 11:21 AM
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I had to do the same thing for our clients a while back. On ours, the reg key I changed was in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\E3C7D3F1E375A6F4A836CB04E4A254FC\

The ID number *might* be different - I don't know enough about how the registry is organised to comment on that. Suffice to say the the ID was the same on all the clients here that had been installed from the admin image.

Look under 'InstallProperties' and you should see a key for 'InstallSource' - this is the one to change.

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- 1-6XF6F3 @ Martin Stokes on Nov 27, 2007 11:29 AM
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  Martin,
  
  Upon doing a registry search of my machine for the admin image path, I found several 'InstallSource' keys that matched. Did you only need to change one to make it work?
  
  Thanks,
  Scott
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  - Marco Vedovato @ 1-6XF6F3 on Nov 27, 2007 2:47 PM
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    Thanks Martin for reply, i try your instruction but don'twork.....
    
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\MY-CODE-ID......
    
    InstallProperties -
    InstallSource --> \\my-network\path
    
    any ideas?
    i try to upgrade from 2006 SP5.1 to 2007 SP5.0, know that forupgrade on next release is good idea to uninstall and delete oldregistry keys.... but this solution should work.....
    thanks
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Martin Stokes Nov 27, 2007 2:38 PM
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Could be they're for different versions of Solidworks Scott. I must admit that I only found this through a combination of necessity and accident after we moved our Admin image to a new server :-)

I'd check the 'DisplayName' key in there and see if it matches to the installed version of Solidworks that you intend to link back to the relocated Admin image.

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Martin
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- 1-6XF6F3 @ Martin Stokes on Nov 27, 2007 7:36 PM
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  Martin,
  
  I looked through the registry again and it appears that the InstallSource key exists for each of the SolidWorks products we have installed (DWGEditor, SWExplorer, ...).
  
  We had to move our images on the server, so I'm about to find out whether changing those values works. I'll keep you posted.
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  - Brian Hughes @ 1-6XF6F3 on Nov 29, 2007 1:21 PM
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    When in doubt, REPLACING an existing administrative image is a nice way to roll.
    
    Between releases, 2006, 2007, 2008 a brand new Admin Image is best. Seems that the process for updating Admin Images changes a little bit with each major release...
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Martin Stokes Nov 27, 2007 3:16 PM
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Ahh, I didn't realise that you were trying to update from one major release to another. In that case, I'm not sure what would work, as I only did this for our Solidworks 2007 image.

You really ought to be doing a clean install if you're going from 2006 > 2007 to prevent any 'anomolies' occuring...

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Martin
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- Marco Vedovato @ Martin Stokes on Nov 27, 2007 3:23 PM
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  Is a simple test, and it work fine if the administrative image pathis the same.....
  ok, i check my client one-to-one!!! Good work!....
  Thanks Martin for your help!
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