RabbieBurns Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 TechSoft 2D Design CAD/CAM Software Got a site license for this, and get given the nstallation CD AFTER we have reimaged the entire school (2000+) machines. So now need to get this onto about 65 machines... There doesnt seem to be any instrucitons about deploying it. Does anyone use this software, and is there away to deploy it via MSI or something ?
FN-GM Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Hi, i have an MSI for it, on the disc there are some MSI installers. You put that in a share and put the .lic file somwhere in the files. If you can wait until next week i can find out properly if you like? 1
rh91uk Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 I use a scirpt to copy the program files to the workstation, but that's because we are using a really vintage old version!
RabbieBurns Posted January 20, 2011 Author Posted January 20, 2011 Cheers.. Ill have a play tomorrow but if I cant figure it out that would be great, cheers.
siuko Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Our version (which looks like 1.21 from the version numbering on the exe) runs fine from a networked share
localzuk Posted January 20, 2011 Posted January 20, 2011 Ours is deployed via MSI and seems to be OK Ditto, its one of the few bits of software which deploys easily I'd say!
RabbieBurns Posted January 31, 2011 Author Posted January 31, 2011 (edited) is it just the \Techsoft 2d Design\New Installation\2D Design V2.msi that I put in the Software Installation Settings in Group policy? Running that manually presents lots of options but putting it in GP doesnt seem to install it... Also, how do I deploy the .lic file too ? Edit, it seems putting the .lic file in with the msi works when doing a manual install. Edited January 31, 2011 by RabbieBurns
RabbieBurns Posted February 1, 2011 Author Posted February 1, 2011 dunno, latest i guess.. Ive found an msi on the cd, and copied the license file to that folder. Set up a group policy, and applied it to my testbed win7 and xp virtual machines.. but it doesnt seem to install.. on the XP ones the "installing 2d..." flashes up but nothing actually gets installed..
plexer Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 Ver 2.0 will also run fine if you install it to a shared folder. Ben 1
RabbieBurns Posted February 1, 2011 Author Posted February 1, 2011 Thanks, that might just be the most simple solution to get this out there fastest.. Ill test tomorrow
joe90bass Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 I've got the 2D Design V2.msi, 2ddes.ini and 2ddes.lic file in the same folder (i.e. our GPO deploy folder on the file server) and it deploys fine to XP, Vista and 7. I've edited the save locations in the .ini file to the users home directory
RabbieBurns Posted February 1, 2011 Author Posted February 1, 2011 hmm.. ill revisit the folder perms then maybe the system is failing to access it.. what should have read permissions for software deploy?
PEO Posted June 8, 2011 Posted June 8, 2011 sorry to drag an old thread up, just to confirm does the ini file need any editing to say where the .lic file is?
localzuk Posted June 8, 2011 Posted June 8, 2011 sorry to drag an old thread up, just to confirm does the ini file need any editing to say where the .lic file is? I didn't. All I did was put the msi, ini and lic file in the same location and it was happy. 1
PEO Posted June 8, 2011 Posted June 8, 2011 Smooth, now for my next problem floppy disk is not working lol
AngryTechnician Posted June 8, 2011 Posted June 8, 2011 If the floppy with your .lic is not working, contact TechSoft and they should be able to supply a new disk. They've always been quite helpful when I've dealt with them. 1
PEO Posted June 9, 2011 Posted June 9, 2011 all sorted, why cant all software depoly like this?? its so easy
Asomodai Posted November 8, 2011 Posted November 8, 2011 Hey guys. A number of our laptops after reimaging have an error when 2D Design starts up. "R6002 Floating point error" Any ideas at all? Might have something to do with the licensing, the hardware hasent changed in years and was not a problem before. Cheers! Rob.
IT_Man_Dan Posted May 16, 2013 Posted May 16, 2013 Morning all, I'm just playing around with pushing out 2D Design V2 via MSI (which is working perfectly) and am trying to configure the drawings directory to the user home areas (N drive) for when they save but it's not working. Should I be setting the drawings directory to just 'N:' or maybe '\\server\%user%' ? Thanks
sonofsanta Posted May 16, 2013 Posted May 16, 2013 This is what our ini file says: InitialLoadDrawingsDirectory=Program directory\Drawings InitialSaveDrawingsDirectory=My Documents So possibly just "My Documents" to meet your needs 1
Darylrese Posted November 14, 2013 Posted November 14, 2013 (edited) Sorry to dig this back up.... We can install the license file fine as admin or staff members, but you cant install the license file as a student due to restrictions on the accounts. I have lifted the lockdown policy, installed the license file, reapplied restrictions to account and its asking for the license file again...any ideas? I ideally we want v2 on our WDS image we are currently building pre licensed as we have a site license Edited November 14, 2013 by Darylrese
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