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AutoCAD Deployment from AWS S3 bucket?

jsanchezGUGSZ — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 18:34:25 GMT

I'm curious if anyone has setup packages that their users can download from the cloud and deploy after they download it? The norm before Covid was that all computers were in our local network and pushing gigs of Autocad, Civil3d, Revit, Inventor could be done in a few minutes and overnight no problem. Now most of our users are home with a VPN connection. Now pushing our pre-configured software trough the VPN is much slower and leads to tons of failed installs because many have slow connections and installs timeout.

I was thinking that I could setup these deployments and have them on the cloud such as an S3 bucket. I can send the link to my users, they download these packages and once they confirm it downloaded I can push a script to install for them since they don't have admin rights. Would I just setup the deployment to load from a "C:\ path" as opposed to a network path "\\server\setup.exe" ?

Is anyone doing something similar?

Re: AutoCAD Deployment from AWS S3 bucket?

Tomislav.Golubovic — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 04:29:09 GMT

If they have slow connections, having it on another cloud service isn't going to matter IMO. If they have Autodesk accounts, they can just download the source installers and install it locally anyway, and they'd have their own copy. Having said that, is there anything different you put into the deployment, or is it a vanilla install?

Re: AutoCAD Deployment from AWS S3 bucket?

jsanchezGUGSZ — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:26:38 GMT

The difference is they can download the packages on their own and if it fails downloading it's on them as opposed to I can't get it to install for you. We add three folders with our standards and network resource paths. I guess another option could be having them download the setup files, I'll install for them (they don't have admin rights), and I can just import a profile.

I kind of just want them to download the setup files with our company settings and just push a script on the backend (PDQ) to install from their local file.

For example, "Hey download the acad 21 setup files and let me know when it's finished". Then when they let me know a script can run to run it silently like if it was from our network. I believe if I setup a deployment and use local paths to set it up it might work, I have to try it out, but wanted to see if anyone did something similar already.

Re: AutoCAD Deployment from AWS S3 bucket?

Tomislav.Golubovic — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 21:59:23 GMT

I think I've deployments from local, and the deployment manager doesn't like it? It needs a \\ path? Or off a network drive letter? I haven't done deployments in a while. I guess in theory it could work? I'd be more inclined to maybe keep it on your server and do it via the VPN, because then you're managing only one deployment, not two (Server and AWS), or are all of your drives on AWS?

Re: AutoCAD Deployment from AWS S3 bucket?

jsanchezGUGSZ — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 22:04:29 GMT

Yeah that would definitely add locations to maintain so you make a good point. I was thinking of S3 because they give you really fast download speeds.

Re: AutoCAD Deployment from AWS S3 bucket?

Tomislav.Golubovic — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 22:37:14 GMT

Do you use OneDrive? Can you do the deployments from a OneDrive path and then each users local OneDrive cache means its going to be local and faster?