Deployment of Single Server License Software via Batch Script

[Anonymous]

Good Morning,

I’m deploying Autocad 2017 and the Building Design Suite to a small office via batch script.  I have to install other software alongside the Autodesk products and unfortunately group policies are not an option.  My trouble lies with the Building Design Suite.  I’ve managed to get Autocad to install silently via the batch script (it’s a standalone license) but cannot get the building design suite to install (it’s a single server license).  Since the parameters are the same for the most part, I’m thinking my problem is with the following:

ACADSERVERPATH=“<FlexLicenseServer> 000000000000”

Is the FlexLicenseServer parameter the UNC path to the license server ie ‘//OSCO-1’ or is it simply the server name ‘OSCO-1’?  Also, what do the zeroes represent?  I tried leaving it as is and putting in the ip address of our license server but was just taking a shot in the dark.  For reference, here is the entire batch script command.

"F:\Source Files\Navis and Revit 2017\Setup.exe" /t /qb /language en-us /c NW: ACADSERIALPREFIX=xxx ACADSERIALNUMBER=xxxxxxxx ADLM_PRODKEY=766I1 ADLM_EULA_COUNTRY=US InstallLevel=5 ACADSTANDALONENETWORKTYPE="3" ACADLICENSESERVERTYPE="Single Server License" ACADLICENSETYPE="Network License" ACADSERVERPATH="OSCO-1 000000000000" /c RVT: ACADSERIALPREFIX=xxx ACADSERIALNUMBER=xxxxxxxx ADLM_PRODKEY=766I1 ADLM_EULA_COUNTRY=<eula_lang>  InstallLevel=5 ACADSTANDALONENETWORKTYPE="3" ACADLICENSESERVERTYPE="Single Server License" ACADLICENSETYPE="Network License" ACADSERVERPATH="OSCO-1 000000000000"

If anyone has any insight to what I'm doing wrong I would appreciate the help.

Thank you

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[Mark.Lancaster]

@Anonymous

Welcome to the community...

I will inform the big guns of this forum and they should be able to assist you...

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@TravisNave

@Darin.Green

[Darin.Green · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the notification @Mark.Lancaster!

@Anonymous,

The best way to approach this is to build a network deployment onto a network share, then use the following line to install the software from the deployment:

\\SERVER\SHARE\BDSU2017\Img\Setup.exe /qb /I \\SERVER\SHARE\BDSU2017\Img\BDSU2016.ini /language en-us

That one line will install everything it needs for that deployment including prerequisites because it's referencing the INI file that contains the configurations. 

---EDIT---

Change SERVER\SHARE\BDSU2017 to the correct location for your deployment.

For assistance with creating network deployment go here

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply Darin.  That's a much cleaner option than writing a block of text for each program in the suite!  However, I ran that command and a blank command prompt window opened (I had @Anonymous off) before closing out a few seconds later.  No error or feedback of any kind.  The silent install should still pop up a box at least that shows the current progress, correct?

-Chris

[TravisNave]

That is correct. 

Sorry for the delay today.  So busy at work.  But Darin is right on with his explanation. 

Good Luck!

[Anonymous]

Thanks Travis.  It must be something to do with the computer's connection to the server then since it's still not installing.  I'll leave that section of code as Darin said and see if I can narrow the problem down further.

Thanks again for the help guys, I really appreciate it!

-Chris

[Anonymous]

For future reference in case anyone else is running into a similar problem, with Darin's code the path to the setup.exe can be in quotes if necessary.  However, the path to the ini file should not be in quotes even if there are spaces in the path name.  I'm not sure why this is the case but it's how I was able to get things working properly.

Thanks again everyone,

-Chris