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Deployment of AdminImage to different offices

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Anonymous
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Deployment of AdminImage to different offices

We have 10 offices in various states that are all part of one WAN, but with
varying backbone speeds. I have an AdminImage created for deployment of ADT
2004 in our corporate office, but I do NOT want the deployment routine to
run across the WAN to install the image.

I would like to copy the image and its associated folders to each local
office server so that the installation process stays local in the office.
However, it seems that I need to create a different image for each office as
it seemed like it was hard-coding the server path during the image creation
process.

Can I just modify the image shortcut (the one that specifies to use
DEPLOY.EXE) to look at the local server?
Are there other places I need to modify the path?
Do I need to recreate the image specific for each office server?

I guess my real question is what is the easiest way to accomplish this?

We are using standalone licenses and not a license server. Workstations are
all Windows XP in all offices and have consistent directory structures.

Thanks for the advice,
Doug Bowers
BSB Architects
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Doug,

My recommendation is to sit at your desk and use the Network Install Wizard
to create an administrative image on a share at each desired location.

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Jerry Milana,
Autodesk Professional Services
"Doug Bowers" wrote in message
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> We have 10 offices in various states that are all part of one WAN, but
with
> varying backbone speeds. I have an AdminImage created for deployment of
ADT
> 2004 in our corporate office, but I do NOT want the deployment routine to
> run across the WAN to install the image.
>
> I would like to copy the image and its associated folders to each local
> office server so that the installation process stays local in the office.
> However, it seems that I need to create a different image for each office
as
> it seemed like it was hard-coding the server path during the image
creation
> process.
>
> Can I just modify the image shortcut (the one that specifies to use
> DEPLOY.EXE) to look at the local server?
> Are there other places I need to modify the path?
> Do I need to recreate the image specific for each office server?
>
> I guess my real question is what is the easiest way to accomplish this?
>
> We are using standalone licenses and not a license server. Workstations
are
> all Windows XP in all offices and have consistent directory structures.
>
> Thanks for the advice,
> Doug Bowers
> BSB Architects
>
>
>
Message 3 of 4
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

Jerry,

Thanks for the response.

It takes 1-1/2 hours to create a deployment image in my office (ADT2004 with
SP2), so won't it take several hours to do this over a WAN? Most offices
have 512K bandwidth.

Doug
Message 4 of 4
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

It seems that I will be able to just copy the image to the other offices and
it will work fine. That will save trying to create a deployment image
across the WAN.

Doug

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