Best Practices for Admin Images from Setting up to Deployment

[Pages:23]All About Admin Images

Best Practices for Admin Images from Setting up to Deployment

All About Admin Images Summary

? What is an admin image ? What are the advantages of having one ? What are my options when creating one ? How do I set it up and customize it ? Troubleshooting permissions ? Best practices from creating through deploying an image

What is an Admin Image?

The Installation Manager is the Keystone

This is where all types of Installations happen, including Admin Images

Admin Images are defined as:

An administrative image allows configurable installations of SOLIDWORKS products from a single network location

What are the advantages of having an Admin Image?

As an IT or Admin this method is very time efficient if there are more than 5 to 10 users

It can provide an easy platform that can be modified to meet all users needs

It creates a workflow that has every user on the same page, yet still gives users the ability to customize their SOLIDWORKS settings

Ease of troubleshooting Easy to work with if you follow the correct steps

What are my options when creating one?

First from your installation disc or download locate:

These three executables/folders are ways to install any prereqs needed

The Setup executable is most common and is what we will use

What are my options when creating one?

Important in any installation upgrade process--always do the following before installing: Disable any anti-virus software that may be running before installing Turn your User Account Control settings (UAC) to Never Notify Run the SETUP.EXE by Right Clicking and select Run as Administrator These three things will solve 80% of issues that come up in installations

What are my options when creating one?

Now to answer the rest of the question: what options do I have in creating an admin image?

The installation manager is your keystone (remember that)

Once the Installation Manager dialog box comes up you will see a Welcome Page like this one:

There are two options to choose from for an admin image

"Create a new image using default settings"

You create a brand new shiny image that is fresh and clean and you can modify it accordingly (like the cherry red 1968 Corvette you always wanted)

"Create a new image using setting and files from an existing image (smaller download)"

Can browse to an existing image and base the new one off of that one, keeping your criteria the same as before (like trading in your minivan for a Porsche Cayenne)

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