Offline deployment

This section describes how to create an offline deployment installation of Alias. This type of installation is similar to the regular deployment except it does not attempt to update files by contacting Autodesk servers over the internet at the time of deployment creation. This allows you to create a customized installer, which you can then use to install Alias on all machines in your deployment, using only the files contained in the installer download.

  1. Sign in to Autodesk Account.

  2. Select your Alias product, and then choose Browser Download.

  3. Extract the downloaded installer. For Alias Studio, it would be Autodesk_ALAUST_2022_0_Enu_64bit_dlm_001_002.sfx.ex or Autodesk_ALAUST_2022_0_Enu_64bit_dlm_001_002.sfx.ex.

  4. Navigate to the location of the extracted files. For example, C:\Autodesk\Autodesk_ALAUST_2022_0_Enu_64bit_dlm.

  5. Open the Collection.xml file and go to the <CustomProperties> element.

    Edit the properties in the file to configure your custom install. Use the information provided in the commented lines, such as <!-- First three characters from the Serial Number -->, for assistance.

    <CustomProperties>
 <!-- First three characters from the Serial Number -->
 <Property name="ACADSERIALPREFIX" value="000" />
 <!-- Serial Number entered for the Product e.g. Its 95576746 when serial number is 565-95576746 -->
 <Property name="ACADSERIALNUMBER" value="00000000" />
 <!-- EULA country/language -->
 <Property name="ADLM_EULA_COUNTRY" value="US" />
 <!-- The default product key can be overridden here. When a product is installed as part of a Suite, this should be the product key of the Suite or for token flex licenses use 535?1 here -->
 <Property name="ADLM_PRODKEY" value="" />
 <!-- 1 for Standalone, 2 for User License, 3 for network -->
 <Property name="ACADSTANDALONENETWORKTYPE" value="3" />
 <!-- Single Server License, Distributed Server License, Redundant Server License-->
 <Property name="ACADLICENSESERVERTYPE" value="Single Server License" />
 <!-- Server name(s); delimiter is a semicolon ';' each server name is prefixed with a "@" -->
 <Property name="ACADSERVERPATH" value="" />
</CustomProperties>

  6. Copy C:\Autodesk\Autodesk_ALAUST_2022_Enu_Win_64bit_dlm to a shared network drive.

  7. Run the deployment install on each target workstation with admin rights using the deploymentInstall.bat file.

  8. Run the deployment uninstall on each target workstation with admin rights by using the deploymentUninstall.bat file.