Admin Image questions
Admin Image questions
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New administrator trying to understand the nuances of admin images. I've read the threads here and put together what I think I need to do at our site.
We are trying to install SP2005 sp2 from admin image. We have 3 stand-alone and 2 network seats. Created an admin image using the command prompt method per the Solidworks website on serverA and have the SNL on serverB. I was able to install a SNL client from the admin image which included the PDMWorks client and E-Drawings. The stand-alone client install only gave me SW, no PDMWorks or E-Drawings. According to the threads, this is normal and I must install PDMWorks and E-Drawings from the CD for the stand-alone clients.
It would seem though, that I can manually add commands in order to create a full install (SW, PDMWorks, E-Drawings) from the admin image for the stand-alone clients. If this is true, can I also create a script to install service packs for the stand-alone clients from the admin image?
Thanks for your help.
We are trying to install SP2005 sp2 from admin image. We have 3 stand-alone and 2 network seats. Created an admin image using the command prompt method per the Solidworks website on serverA and have the SNL on serverB. I was able to install a SNL client from the admin image which included the PDMWorks client and E-Drawings. The stand-alone client install only gave me SW, no PDMWorks or E-Drawings. According to the threads, this is normal and I must install PDMWorks and E-Drawings from the CD for the stand-alone clients.
It would seem though, that I can manually add commands in order to create a full install (SW, PDMWorks, E-Drawings) from the admin image for the stand-alone clients. If this is true, can I also create a script to install service packs for the stand-alone clients from the admin image?
Thanks for your help.






RE: Admin Image questions
If you installed from an Admin image, the local installation can be updated using
swspmanager /p [name of the .msp file containing the service pack]
This will work as long as the installation has access to see the original Admin image as well as the .msp file.
E-drawings SP's are usually done with a full re-install...
RE: Admin Image questions
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The .ini file contains the line:
AFTERCMD=\\admin image location\update_Install.bat
The update_Install.bat file contains the line:
msiexec /i "admin image location\eDrawingsProEnglish\eDrawings.msi" LOGPERFORMANCE=0 ADDLOCAL=All /qb
This will automatically install eDrawings silently immediately after the SWx install.
Although, I do not remember exactly how I got the "admin image location\eDrawingsProEnglish\" folder. I think I downloaded the eDrawings file from the website and either unziped or installed it to the admin image folder.
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It works.
But if you can do the same thing with PDM, please note that Windows Installer will not wait for one to finish before starting the next. The second one will error out because it is already running.