As most people know, Inventor is comprised of several different installations including Inventor, Content Center, Material Libraries, etc each of which has its own uninstall entry in the Windows Control Panel.We're not yet using this tool to distribute major product versions, but it does streamline the incremental release process for some users. We also now have the Autodesk Application Manager which runs in the system tray and alerts you to available service packs and updates.If you're not using the Deployment Wizard, you can still import these same xml files directly on each workstation from Inventor’s Customization and App Options dialogs. The new version will then be automatically installed and configured with familiar settings. One capability that is available in the Deployment Wizard is the option to include a Customization.xml and AppOptions.xml file exported from a previous release of Inventor. As Kirk pointed out earlier in the thread, the Deployment Wizard is a good option for folks who need to install Inventor/PDSU on multiple machines.There have been quite a few topics mentioned in this thread, so I’ll take a minute and summarize some existing Inventor functionality which I think are useful to these scenarios. We are continuing to look at other ways of improving update/upgrade delivery for Inventor and Product Design Suite. We've continued to see steady adoption of Citrix and other virtualization technologies, and not much demand for a server-heavy Inventor install. At that time we decided instead to pursue more robust Inventor support for industry-standard solutions such as Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop. This remaining heavy footprint on the client workstations negated much of the benefit of a server-based install. When we tried this with Inventor we were able to move many of the files to the server, however a sizeable amount of data (mostly third-party prerequisites and adjacent Autodesk applications) still needed to be installed and kept up to date on the client workstation. I'm not aware of a server-heavy install for Creo 2 or 3, or at least it doesn't appear to be documented in their install guide (links anyone?). The last time I checked Catia also supported a similar install model, although there is definitely still a client-side install required. AutoCAD used to have a server-heavy install like this, but it was abandoned sometime around the AutoCAD 2002 release. Some time ago we did explore whether Inventor files could be stored on a network share and executed remotely from the local workstations.
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