Inventor 2012 GPO deployment

[Aivars_S]

Good day,
In my expirience I have created a lot of Autdesk products but have never encountered following problem. First I'll try to fill in with what i have been doing.

1. Created a 64bit Admin image from Product Design Suite with only Inventor 2012 and Showcase selected. I did not merge service packs with base .msi's. 
2. In the end I was looking for inventor-for-gpo.msi but it wasn't there. As i've looked up here on forums inventor is "special" and i should not need any additional MSI.
3. Prepared test machine (Windows 7 X64) with following prerequisites: .NET 4, DirectX, VBA, Microsoft WSE 3.0 Runtime, Visual c++ 2005 (x86 and x64), Visual c++ 2008 (x86 and x64), MSXML6
4. Created GPO's for software: 

• AdminImage\x64\Inventor\Inventor.msi with AdminImage\x64\Inventor\inventor-mydeployment.mst and Tools\gpo.mst
• AdminImage\x64\en-us\Inventor\InventorLP.msi 
• AdminImage\x64\Showcase\AutodeskShowcase6.0.msi with AdminImage\x64\Showcase\AutodeskShowcase6.0-mydeployment.mst and Tools\gpo.mst
• AdminImage\x64\en-us\Showcase\Showcase6.0-LP.msi

  5.  Published it to PC

  6.  Installation succeeds and logs ends with exit code 0

  7.  Problem starts here. I can open Showcase. But when i try to open Inventor 2012 it opens loading screen (process invetor.exe starts) and after a minute or so it (loading screen and process) closes. Windows event viewer doesn't get any errors, ProcessMonitor doesn't show any failed command attempts.

I have tried to install this manually without gpo.mst and the result is the same.

[!!!] If i launch setup.exe with .ini config file everything works just fine.

Only thing i can suspect now is that there are some special properties or hidden prerequisites installed with setup.exe that are not included in just .msi with .mst. Athough I looked at .ini and didn't see anything special there.

So could someone please share knowledge with Inventor installation from MSI? Thank you in advance.

[Aivars_S]

I've found something in ProgramData folder logs. Here is the part of log.

1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	Reason=Fatal error
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	ComputerName=MYPCNAME
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	OS=6.1.7600.
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	File=AdlmIntNWFBLicense.cpp,Line=766
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	VendorID=3 [FLEXLM-NW]
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	VendorError=-96 [Server node is down or not responding]
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	FLEXLM-NW=v11.9.0.0 build 87342 x64_n6
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	Reason=Fatal error
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	ComputerName=MYPCNAME
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	OS=6.1.7600.
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	File=AdlmIntNWFBLicense.cpp,Line=749
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	AdlmIntError=20 [License check out failed]
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	Reason=Fatal error
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	ComputerName=MYPCNAME
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	OS=6.1.7600.
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	File=AdlmIntLicense.cpp,Line=612
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	VendorID=6 [ADLMPIT]
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	VendorError=12 [The root information in Product Information Table XML file is missing]
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	Reason=Fatal error
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	ComputerName=MYPCNAME
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	OS=6.1.7600.
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	File=AdlmIntLicense.cpp,Line=613
1184	2012/01/12	11:03:26	AdlmIntError=25 [The product key was not found]


 

And this is really strange. I have checked properties for .mst ACADSERIALNUMBER, ACADSERIALPREFIX and ADLM_PRODKEY is filled with correct info. I am using also ACADSERVERPATH which is not accesible at the machine where i test this but shouldn't it just popup flexera window to provide new server path or license key file the same like it is for Showcase?

[hashim.mundol · Accepted solution]

AdminImage\x64\en-us\Inventor\InventorLP.msi  should also include the same .mst as Inventor.msi. i.e. with AdminImage\x64\Inventor\inventor-mydeployment.mst and Tools\gpo.mst