Hello,
I have nearly 60 solidworks installations on the network. till now i was deploying major versions manually, but the number of installations increased greatly throughout last year, so i need to do it automatically.
I am trying to set up the adminstrative image to deploy solidworks. few problems i faced so far:
1. If i create groups manually and deploy installation via email, the desired computer gets full install, not depending on the group it belongs to.
2. When trying to add multiple machines, none of them are populated. i have to do it manually.
is it a normal practice?
How are you generating the emails to have the users install? When I click the "Send Email" button on the Deploy Manually tab of the admin image options editor it includes a link to the HTA file. That would mean that the user has to click the install button once that page opens.
If you want to give them a command to run you could give them something like this:
\\ServerName\Solidworks\SW2020SP5\64bit\sldim\sldim.exe /adminclient /new /source \\ServerName\Solidworks\SW2020SP5\64bit\admindirector.xml /norunsw
With that they can paste it into their Windows explorer address bar and it will start the installation using their computer name from the AdminDirector.xml file.