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Half their websites seem to only work in IE, so just use that. Go to https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/all Click on a product and Create Account Select School IT Administrator Install the server licence manager https://knowledge.autodesk.com/customer-service/network-license-administration/install-and-configure-network-license/windows/install-the-network-license-manager-windows#Download%20from%20Autodesk%20and%20Install You'll need the server name and ethernet mac address which is in the LMTools System Settings tab Go back to a product, eg https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/3ds-max Select Licemse type as School: Deploy with network server Normal download will try to use a download manager that ignores proxies. If you can't bypass your proxy use IE and Browser Download. Go to https://registeronce.autodesk.com in IE (Might need compatibility mode), log in with your username, which isn't your email address, it can be found in https://accounts.autodesk.com/Profile/Security same password. At this point I created a "Account" for with the school name and address, and then selected that. It then asks for Product Information, under that should be a form, if not, your browser is too new. Copy the serial number from the email you got when trying to download. Select Single server and copy the hostname and mac address, with no :s or 's You'll get an email, or save from the webpage the .lic file, copy that to the server. At https://manage.autodesk.com you'll find the downloads, filter by network licence, don't click Install now, click View All then pick Browser Download. If your software is not there, eg 3ds, click Download Proudcts at the bottom, select the software, click the arrow to the right of Download Now and select Browser download. Check it's fully downloaded as the exe will run even if it's not, and complain there's files missing. Some downloads are in multiple parts, IE seems to cope with that better than Chrome, needs popups disabling for those sites. While waiting install the licence file on the server. Open LMTools, Config Services, set a service name, eg Flexlm Service Autodesk Path to lmgrd.exe is by default C:\Autodesk\Network License Manager\lmgrd.exe Select the licence file you copied. Click Use Services and Start Server at Power Up Click Save Service Click Start/Stop/Reread Select your server Click Start If you want to add more products, stop the service, edit the .lic file, and combine them https://knowledge.autodesk.com/customer-service/network-license-administration/managing-network-licenses/combining-license-files/combining-license-files-for-multiple-autodesk-products Copy all of the lines from the new license file starting after the VENDOR line. You do not need to copy the SERVER, USE_SERVER or VENDOR lines from the new license as these only need to appear once in a license file. Do not alter the contents of the license information; only copy and paste from one file to another. Then restart the service in the Start/Stop/Reread tab. Run the GB sized exe on a computer, extract to a folder (often fails if it's a USB stick, asking for discs to be inserted, assume it thinks it's on multiple DVDs), from that folder run Setup.exe, click Create Deployment, give it a name, anything will do, give a writable folder to copy the actual install files to. For License Access select network, put in your serial number and product ID from the email, and the network license server, and it will generate an msi and mst for your gpo. There's an SCCM.txt file with some more details. You'll also have to install the CLIC licence manager (one msi and one gpo), and maybe some VC++ redistributables (run the exes and then extract the MSIs from C:\programdata\Package Cache) So far I've done this for Maya (Worked), Motionbuilder (Worked), AutoCAD (creating admin install Worked, but GPO deploy not working yet), Sketchbook (Installed, but won't run), Stingray (Installed, but wants activating with serial number, something about a licence feature not being found), 3D Studio Max (Installed, but won't run, log file says licencing error)