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Consistency: get rid of revit.ini - use a GPO

Consistency: get rid of revit.ini - use a GPO

Revit settings are stored in two places: revit.ini and the registry. Inconsistent. Get rid of revit.ini and put everything in the registry. Provide an Administrative Template (.ADMX) file so we can use a Group Policy Object (GPO) for easy distribution of settings. Oh, and while creating that ADMX file, throw in as much settings as possible?

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atiefenbach
Advocate

Although I agree about being consistent, I completely disagree about using the registry and GPO to administer Revit.  As I'm not the Network Administrator, I don't manage our company's GPO, nor should I.  I do however create the Revit.ini file which easily sets the few settings I need to be distributed once installed.

 

By using the Registry I'll end up having to do weird registry hacks to get the deployment correct, like I have to do with AutoCAD.  Our users are not administrators on their machines and so therefore don't do their own installs.  Since the Network Admin logs in to install the products, non of the AutoCAD registry settings are assigned to the user that actually uses that machine (hence the registry hacks).

 

Also, with the INI file I can quickly reset the settings of the workstation and any users back to the company standard just by deleting and copy/pasting the INI file.  With the registry I'd need to delete those keys in the registry directly.  Here's where that sucks even more, if the non-admin user is logged in, they CAN'T edit the registry to fix those settings.  If I login, then, to fix the registery, only MY settings would be reset, since I'm then the Current User of that workstation.

 

I hate the way AutoCAD installs now and I'd NEVER, EVER, want Revit to go that route!!

Simon_Weel
Advisor

By using the Registry I'll end up having to do weird registry hacks to get the deployment correct, like I have to do with AutoCAD.

I agree - mandatory is the availability of Administrative Templates (.ADMX) files. Then you can simply use a GPO to distribute settings among users, without the need of weird registry hacks.

atiefenbach
Advocate

Using the GPO, though, means the Network Admin is creating and distributing the settings.  Maybe there's a perfect world where that is one person who knows a TON about Revit/Autodesk products, they manage those products and would know what the correct settings should be for all users, but it's not reality in every firm in the world.  Since I don't manage the GPO, having my Network Admin assign settings for the Revit users I manage would be my nightmare.

 

I'm fine with an option for GPO, since I could see how that could help those scenarios, but I wouldn't want to remove the INI file so I could still effectively manage my Revit users without the need to be a Network Admin.

Simon_Weel
Advisor

In Active Directory, we have a group CAD managers and that group has permission to alter CAD-related GPO's....

sasha.crotty
Community Manager
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sasha.crotty
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