Checklist of pre-deployment activities.
This checklist identifies preliminary tasks to complete, information to gather, and decisions to make before creating a network deployment.
Tip: To review deployment settings, including details of product configuration, you can create a test deployment. After the learning process, you can delete the test deployment.
- Review the system requirements by clicking the System Requirements link in the installer. Confirm that your network, servers, and client computers meet these system requirements.
- Understand the general process for installing the type of license you have purchased. For a network license deployment, know the license server name(s), and the type of license server model that was specified at the time of license purchase.
- Install and activate any network administrator tools and utilities. For example, if you are using a network license, install the Network License Manager from the installer.
- For any Windows 8 computers, ensure that the Microsoft .NET 3.5 Framework can be installed, or manually enable it before deployment.
- Locate your product serial number and product key. These are found on the outside of the product packaging, or if you downloaded your product or upgrade from Autodesk, they are in an email message .
- Identify a network location for deployments, and create a shared folder to contain deployments.
- If your product has language options, decide which language to use for each deployment.
Note: Languages can be included when you initially create a deployment, or when you create a new deployment configuration, but not when you modify a deployment.
- Determine whether to create log files on individual computers, in the deployment folder, or both.
- Determine whether to run installations in silent mode.
Note: When products are installed in silent mode, the user's system can automatically reboot without warning when the installation is complete.
- Identify other configuration options to set, such as defined search paths, locations of support files, additional software to deploy, and whether to automatically install service packs.