Basic Maya network deployment

For Windows, deploy Maya from your Autodesk account.

The instructions in this document are for deploying Maya on macOS across a network.

Extract and copy the installation files

On macOS
  1. Mount the dmg by double-clicking on it.
  2. Create a directory on a network share for your deployment documents.
  3. Right-click on Install Maya <version>.app and select Show Package Contents.
  4. Copy the Contents directory to the directory on the network share, creating <network_share>/<deployment_documents>/Contents/ .
  5. Copy Contents/Helper/manifest/basic_deployment_collection_template.xml to the directory on the network share, creating <network_share>/<deployment_documents>/basic_deployment_collection_template.xml. This is the copy of basic_deployment_collection_template.xml you will modify for deployment.

Modify the deployment template

Open basic_deployment_collection_template.xml and modify the following sections:

<Eula><Status>
Set this to Accept: 
<Eula>
     <Status>Accept</Status>
</Eula>
<LoggingSettings>
Set it to the name and location of the log file. The file must be accessible to the hosts on which Maya is being deployed. For example: 
<LoggingSettings>
    <Logging>true</Logging>
    <Path>/my_mnt_pnt/path_to_logs/deployment.log</Path>
</LoggingSettings>
<AdlmPitFile>
Set it to MayaCreativeConfig.pit. For example: 
<LicenseRegistrationInfo>
    <AdlmPitFile>MayaCreativeConfig.pit</AdlmPitFile>
    <AdlmVersion>2024.0.0.F</AdlmVersion>
</LicenseRegistrationInfo>
<ProductKey>
Change the value of the ProductKey property to C78P1: 
<ProductKey>C78P1</ProductKey>
<SelProductKey>
Change the value of the SelProductKey property to C78P1: 
<CustomProperties>
    <Property name="SelProductKey" value="C78P1" />
    <Property name="EulaLocale" value="US" />
</CustomProperties>
<Applications><!--Name--><Application><UPI2>[...]</UPI2></Application>
Maya components such as USD will be installed by default. To prevent a specific component from being installed, comment out the component's <Application> section. The <Application> section of a specific component will be below its name. Be careful to not create nested comments if you are commenting out more than one component. Nested comments are not supported in xml.

Run the installer

Once you have modified the basic_deployment_collection_template.xml file, install Maya using the silent installation option.

On macOS, use the Setup command in <network_share>/<deployment_documents>/Contents/Helper/Setup.app/Contents/MacOS/. In a terminal window, run the Setup command using absolute paths: 
sudo <network_share>/<deployment_documents>/Contents/Helper/Setup.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup -i deploy --noupdate --silent -o <network_share>/<deployment_documents>/basic_deployment_collection_template.xml
Parent topic: Maya Installation