Revit server over VPN

[bward]

Does anyone have experiecne using revit server over a vpn connection? I am looking to work from home more and want to know if this a viable option. Thanks.

[Clark.Rob]

The slow down in your connection is going to be prior to the Revit Server getting involved, i.e. the synchronization with your local and office based central file. The VPN is a connection to that, the link to the Revit Server is between that central file and other Revit Servers within your organisation.

I suppose a technically savy person could set up a home server with Revit Server running on it, thus you could synchronize locally, which would significantly speed up the home working experience.  Interesting idea!

[bward]

I do have a Network Attached Storage devices at home, but this does not have the bells and whisltes of a real network server. Not a bad idea with the home server however. Thanks for the idea.

[SKehg]

try these two links,

Revit Server through a VPN

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Revit/enu/2011/Help/Revit_Server/Large_Team_Workflow/Troubleshooting/Us...

Installing Revit Server on a different OS than 2008 R2

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Revit-Architecture/Revit-Server-specs/td-p/2784768

and in particular look at this response from that thread;

"Although not officially supported, you CAN run Revit Server on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine, and even virtually as well. Just finished my video, showing from downloading the file to getting it up and running.

Check it out and see that's what you need: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSjMY3hA79I

Hope that helps! 

Jame Wong

Director of IT, Microsol Resources

Blog it out: http://thejame.wordpress.com/"

I believe you should be able to get it working on the same Windows 7 that Revit is installed to and hook up to the central server from the one computer with a little detective work and hacking.  Will Autodesk support you if you have an issue though.  No.  And noor should they.  But if it works and saves you buying a server with Windows 2008 installed then that saves some $$

[Bittlelum1]

We are just starting to use Revit Server and have had problems with a user who connected to the Revit Server from a home/office.

It appeared that Revit server is very sensitive to the quality of the connections. We found that the VPN link was not consistent enough to maintain a good connection and that the model accessed by the user was damaged and it was necessary to re-set the model into Revit server. This happened 2 times so, on advice from Autodesk, we do not permit any user to work Revit over a VPN connection.

Dan darling

[bward]

Good information.  I am using a remote desktop connection and this seems to work much better then trying to push the Revit data through the VPN. The only down side is I have to have a computer at my house and one in the office on the LAN.

We have not begun to test Revit server yet, but I suspect it sould work with a remote desktop connection.

[SKehg]

Using a remote desktop connection is certainly a great way to work from home.  In this circumstance Revit server is not needed (unless you were remoting into office1 and collaborating with office2, here the Revit server would be between office1 and office2).  I don't know much about Citrix however the 2012 release is Citrix ready and will be a better way of working remotley once it is configured correctly.  Here is a link about Citrix, whatch the video   http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=2300358

Here is a link about Revit 21012 being Citrix ready  http://blog.jtbworld.com/2011/04/autocad-2012-and-revit-2012-are-citrix.html

Hope that helps