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Access for IT Administration

Access for IT Administration

jgroveGMLGW
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Access for IT Administration

jgroveGMLGW
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Hello Autodesk Community,

We like the new look and feel of the Autodesk Access app much better than the old Desktop app, it's just still a manual process and we know 90% of our users won't take the time to manually update software. We also would prefer to not allow manual updates to keep everyone on the same versions. So we would like to be able to use it for deploying minor updates (such as the Identity Manager, Licensing Service, etc.) to keep those services up-to-date across all of our domain.

 

As an example, the Adobe Creative Cloud has a fantastic feature where we can force all Adobe software users in our domain to apply updates to their software, split between major updates and minor updates. We can force all Adobe software to automatically update with all minor patches and security updates without having to micro manage machines or create large software deployments. And we know that the software should smoothly update through their own update software rather than trying to deploy patches.

 

Is this a feature that either exists in Access, or can be brought to Access? We would like to be able to, on a schedule, keep all of these minor software updates current. However, it would be very useful to have the ability to delay updates for x amount of days (such as waiting 2 weeks to test before deploying to everyone) and to disable any major updates or exclude software (such as do not allow Revit to update, but allow Identity Manager to update).

 

Thank you for any information you may have on this!

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DarrenP
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the users have to manually install updates from Access

you can disable this function through a registry key here: https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Disable-updates-In...

 

for future features

pulled from here: https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACCESS/ENU/?guid=GUID-2533F9BE-4929-433D-93DE-D330CC6BA3A6

What will Access do for me in the future?

With parallel development on both Access and Autodesk Account, Autodesk will soon deliver solutions for the following capabilities:
  • Automatically install approved opt-in updates on a regular, predictable basis on a time schedule set by the admin.
  • Understand what product versions and updates have been applied to each of your user's machines.
  • Provide notifications about new updates when they become available.
  • Allow you to stay on a particular product version until you're ready to update.
  • Automatically provide users with specific deployment packages with company settings and extensions included, instead of any product version with no settings.

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jgroveGMLGW
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@DarrenP thank you for that link you provided! That's exactly what we were looking for to know that Autodesk is working on this as a feature!

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