OhDear Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 (edited) I'm attempting to take advantage of the new Autodesk licensing and am going to deploy AutoCAD 2013 to a few staff machines so they can give it a go. I have created a Deployment, imported it as a package in SCCM and am using the command line provided '.\AdminImage\setup.exe /W /q /I AdminImage\AutoCAD 2013.ini /language en-us' to deploy it to a test distribution group. It installs fine but it reports back to SCCM with 'Error: 0x103(259). Does anyone know a way to fix it so it reports back correctly? Thanks! EDIT: Upon trying to open AutoCAD 2013 as a student, I get 'Error 1325: 'Test' is not a valid short file name.' - Works fine as admin, has anyone encountered this? We are on Mandatory Profiles. Edited October 2, 2012 by OhDear
FN-GM Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 As it happens i have just done this. Did the software actually install?
OhDear Posted October 2, 2012 Author Posted October 2, 2012 Yes, runs fine as Admin. Its just that it reports back wrong, and that it throws the 'Error 1325' message as a student
OhDear Posted October 2, 2012 Author Posted October 2, 2012 How do you mean it runs fine as admin? After SCCM has installed it. I can run the program as normal from an admin account. Just out of curiosity, is you're command line you use with SCCM the same?
FN-GM Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 ah when you run it as a student does it run the installer again? Will post my command in a second when i remote in.
FN-GM Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 this is my command .\AdminImage\setup.exe /W /Q /I .\AdminImage\FPHS-AUTOCAD-2013-X86.ini /language en-us
OhDear Posted October 2, 2012 Author Posted October 2, 2012 ah when you run it as a student does it run the installer again? It seems to try, but errors with this 'Error 1325: 'TestStudent' is not a valid short file name.'. Gave it a quick Google and found no answers, just people with the same issue. Have tried making them Power Users/Local Admins but didn't seem to work. Thanks for the command, will change a few things with my deployment and try again.
free780 Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 Its not that the user needs modify access to c:\program files\autodesk ?
FN-GM Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 It seems to try, but errors with this 'Error 1325: 'TestStudent' is not a valid short file name.'. Gave it a quick Google and found no answers, just people with the same issue. Have tried making them Power Users/Local Admins but didn't seem to work. Thanks for the command, will change a few things with my deployment and try again. I got the same thing. I have to log in as admin, let it run through then use the profile for that account as the students profile.
OhDear Posted October 2, 2012 Author Posted October 2, 2012 Its not that the user needs modify access to c:\program files\autodesk ? Would of thought making them Local Admins gave them this
OhDear Posted October 2, 2012 Author Posted October 2, 2012 I got the same thing. I have to log in as admin, let it run through then use the profile for that account as the students profile. Ahh, so maybe a registry thing? Will give it a go. Thanks!
FN-GM Posted October 2, 2012 Posted October 2, 2012 Let me know how you get on, i havent put my changes into production yet. If you find another way around it without doing profile please do share
OhDear Posted October 2, 2012 Author Posted October 2, 2012 SCCM now reports back correctly, I have a feeling it didn't like the space in the command. Have also found this on Autodesk's website:- Unable to run AutoCAD as a restricted user So far it hasn't proven to be much help, will give it another go in the morning!
OhDear Posted October 5, 2012 Author Posted October 5, 2012 @OhDear How did you get on? thanks Literally just figured out a way when the post arrived in my email! Just trying to sort out the final few things then I will post my results! P.s. Don't suppose you know how to use %USERNAME% in the registry?
FN-GM Posted October 5, 2012 Posted October 5, 2012 When i used it in the past %USERNAME% just worked for me Please let me know what you find, i want to avoid editing the students profile. Thanks
OhDear Posted October 5, 2012 Author Posted October 5, 2012 When i used it in the past %USERNAME% just worked for me Please let me know what you find, i want to avoid editing the students profile. Thanks Think it has to be REG_EXPAND_SZ... Currently its REG_SZ - Still working on it..
OhDear Posted October 5, 2012 Author Posted October 5, 2012 Sorted it!!! Download this and have a look at the Read Me - been working on this all day! 1
FN-GM Posted October 6, 2012 Posted October 6, 2012 thanks @OhDear we use AutoCad 2012, can you tell me what you did with the reg please so i can adapt? Thanks
OhDear Posted October 6, 2012 Author Posted October 6, 2012 thanks @OhDear we use AutoCad 2012, can you tell me what you did with the reg please so i can adapt? Thanks I ran it as a local user so it configured correctly on the first run, then went into HKCU\Software and exported both Autodesk and Autodesk, Inc. You will have to look through the exported .reg files and where it mentions the user you ran it as you will need to put these entries in GPP and use the variable %LogonUser% instead of the username. - Make sure to delete the entries in the .reg files when you put them in GPP! Also, I had to get the files it created from AppData\Local and Roaming. Then create a logon script to copy these to the users AppData, and run the modified .reg files. Thats what worked for me. Might be time to upgrade to 2013 if it doesn't for you 1
FN-GM Posted October 6, 2012 Posted October 6, 2012 I ran it as a local user so it configured correctly on the first run, then went into HKCU\Software and exported both Autodesk and Autodesk, Inc. You will have to look through the exported .reg files and where it mentions the user you ran it as you will need to put these entries in GPP and use the variable %LogonUser% instead of the username. - Make sure to delete the entries in the .reg files when you put them in GPP! Also, I had to get the files it created from AppData\Local and Roaming. Then create a logon script to copy these to the users AppData, and run the modified .reg files. Thats what worked for me. Might be time to upgrade to 2013 if it doesn't for you We got ours free, we cant get an update
edie209 Posted March 5, 2013 Posted March 5, 2013 Reviving an old thread I am about to do the same as you both with Autocad 2013, my question is did you create your msi or was it supplied by autodesk?
FN-GM Posted March 5, 2013 Posted March 5, 2013 I did get it sorted but off top of my head i dont remember how. I will look back at it and see how i did it. 1
OhDear Posted March 5, 2013 Author Posted March 5, 2013 Reviving an old thread I am about to do the same as you both with Autocad 2013, my question is did you create your msi or was it supplied by autodesk? Once I downloaded AutoCAD, it had a SCCM Scripts folder which is what I used. 1
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