Moving an Administrative Image
Moving an Administrative Image
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We have a number of Solidworks client installations that were installed from an administrative image. This administrative image has to be moved, so the path to it on the server has to change. Of course, the path to the admin image on the clients then has to change also, or else you can't install SP's.
I've been able to figure out that there is a registry key on the clients that tells windows installer where the Administrative image is, but this registry key is unique to each computer as it is associated with a unique installation ID.
Does anyone have any other ideas as to how I could re-direct these installations to the new Administrative image location without having to do an uninstall & re-install (ugh)?
Thanks!
I've been able to figure out that there is a registry key on the clients that tells windows installer where the Administrative image is, but this registry key is unique to each computer as it is associated with a unique installation ID.
Does anyone have any other ideas as to how I could re-direct these installations to the new Administrative image location without having to do an uninstall & re-install (ugh)?
Thanks!






RE: Moving an Administrative Image
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
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RE: Moving an Administrative Image
RE: Moving an Administrative Image
The process I did this time (upgrading from SW2004 Sp4.1 to Sp5.0) was to re-create the admin image from CD, then update it to SP5, which went fine. I then copied this new image in to this new directory location (no longer possible to use the original location).
PDMAdmin - can you give some more detail as to how you use msiexec to point clients to the new admin image location?
RE: Moving an Administrative Image
You can read more about using "msiexec" with SolidWorks installs here:
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Bottom line, the syntax is something like this:
msiexec /i [path to admin image]
The "/i" option installs or updates (it's also good for pointing to a new admin image location); the "/x" option uninstalls a client (very handy for upgrading a major release). There are many options available; you can read more about them in the install guide.
RE: Moving an Administrative Image