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Little details about relocating deployments and using UNC paths

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cbarbieri
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Little details about relocating deployments and using UNC paths

I've created a deployment and am relocating it to a server for use.

Most of the edits required to do this are entirely straight forward, except for two, having to do with IMG\Updates\AdAppMgrSvc.ini and updates_x64.ini. 

For whatever reason these two files use a different folder deliniation format, with double-backslashes and forward slashes.

It is not clear in anything I've read on how to accommodate UNC paths for these files but I hope that someone here knows.

 

The IMG\Updates\AdAppMgrSvc.ini has two sections to change:

Section 1

     The original local copy of the delpoyment looks like this(note the double backslashes😞

          [DownloadManager]
          Location=C:\\2018_BDS_P_REVIT\\Img\\Updates


     So this is what I put:

          [DownloadManager]
          Location=\\\\192.168.22.252\\network\\programs\\Autodesk\\2018_BDS_P_REVIT\\Img\\Updates

 

Section 2

 

     The original local copy of the delpoyment looks like this(note the forwardslashes😞

          [INIs]
          AdAppMgr%3AAD-cbarbieri=C:/2018_BDS_P_REVIT/Img/Updates/AdAppMgr.ini

 

     So this is what I put:

          [INIs]
          AdAppMgr%3AAD-cbarbieri=\\192.168.22.252/Network/programs/Autodesk/2018_BDS_P_REVIT/Img/Updates/AdAppMgr.ini

 

 

The IMG\Updates\updates_x64.ini also has two sections to change:

 

     The section of concern in the original local copy of the delpoyment looks like this(note the double backslashes😞

     ..."downloadedFile" : "C:\\2018_BDS_P_REVIT\\Img\\Updates\\9CA05B9A-1802-0510-A1B4-387FA39D9B13\\Autodesk_Revit_2018_0_1.exe",

 

     So this is what I put:c

          "downloadedFile" : "\\\\192.168.22.252\\Network\\programs\\Autodesk\\2018_BDS_P_REVIT\\Img\\Updates\\9CA05B9A-1802-0510-A1B4-387FA39D9B13\\Autodesk_Revit_2018_0_1.exe",

 

There's info here but I haven't found anywhere the explains how to incorporate a UNC path into this folder delineation method.

 

I don't know yet if this is working. The deployment is taking an unusually long time so I suspect this is not ok.

Any help would be appreciated

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natasha.l
in reply to: cbarbieri

Hello @cbarbieri,

 

This is the most current recommendation for changing a deployment location manually: How to manually change the location of a deployment

 

Let us know how it turns out. Smiley Happy

 

Please "Accept As Solution" if a reply has helped resolved the issue or answered your question, to help others in the community.

 

 



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cbarbieri
in reply to: natasha.l

Thank you for your reply. Yes, I actually reference that link in my post.

 

That page does not address how to accommodate the unix-style slashes when using a unc path. Up until now I couldn't figure out why my deployment wasn't getting past the "setup initializing" dialog... And I thought it was something I did here wrong. Basically, I have found that the unc double-slash is totally unrelated and unaffected by the following double-slashes and its written like one would expect, like below.

 

example:

the page shows this:

Location=C:\\2018_BDS_P_REVIT\\Img\\Updates

 

For the unc, I do this 

Location=\\192.168.22.252\\network\\programs...

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