topic Re: AutoCAD startup behavior in Installation & Licensing Forum

AutoCAD startup behavior

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:01:17 GMT

Hallo,

i want to start AutoCAD 2015 as a restricted user. On the first start a setup is executed and files are installed to the %appdata% folder. This setup is run as Administrator. In my case Administrators cant write to the %appdata% folder.

This Site says the setup is only executed when certain folders and registry keys dont exist. But when i copy this folders and keys from another installation the setup is still executed and fails. Is there a way to prevent the setup from being executed on start up?

Re: AutoCAD startup behavior

TravisNave — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:37:21 GMT

Installation should be done with local admin rights. Once the initial setup is complete, then you can make the user a restricted user. It only has to be elevated during the time of install. Though, professionally, there are not a lot of legitimate reasons not to give your engineers local admin or power user rights to the machine. Is there a particular reason you want these to run restricted?

Re: AutoCAD startup behavior

Darin.Green — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 19:05:37 GMT

I agree with @TravisNave, Local Admin rights or the legendary "power user" rights is highly recommended. Secondly, even as a standard user, they should have access to %appdata% because it's part of the users profile. This lead me to believe the issue is with something else like group policies or something similar.

As Travis stated, you will need to install the software as an administrator. Once that is completed, give them full access to the following locations:

C:\Programdata\Autodesk\

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\

C:\Users\<username>\<--Everything-->

Re: AutoCAD startup behavior

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:33:46 GMT

Like i wrote in my post the problem is admins cant access the %appdata% folder, only the restricted user can, cause like you said the %appdata% belongs to the specific user. Changing this is not an option because it is intended that admins cant access the private files of an user.