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    Slow creation of Network Deployments for AutoCAD and other Autodesk Products?

    Ok, here's the final word on why it takes so long to create Network Deployments using AutoCAD's deployment tool...for 2006 through 2010 and most likely beyond:

    You absolutelymust turn your antivirus OFF before creating a deployment.

    Failure to do so will cause your deployment to take more than 10 or even 20 hours and may ultimately crash anyway.

    This is especially true for Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition (and later).

    On a reasonably fast Dual-Core machine, deployments should take no longer than 15 minutes.

    Also, be careful to note that on your LAN, the Administrative Tools for Symantec Antivirus has a feature to turn Auto-Protect back on automatically after XX number of minutes. If this feature is used, you must go to the AV server, disable this feature, and then from the workstation where you create the deployments, dissable your Auto-Protect.

    Make sure to return all AV settings to their original settings on both the workstation and server after creating your depolyments.

    Procedures for other makes of antivirus products will vary.

    Good luck to all who have suffered (as I have) with this horrible time wasting discovery.

    For some reason, Autodesk seems to hide the solution to this issue. Sure, they do advise that you turn your antivirus off, but frankly, I rarely do because in 22 years of installing and supporting AutoCAD and Autodesk products, I've never, ever seen any issues arrise when installing them with antivirus enabled. And local installations do not suffer at all even now.

    Only Autodesk's Network Deployments since about the 2006 product release seem to be affected.

    This tip will be posted on several AutoCAD Users Groups and should be easy to find in a google search.

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    Default Re: Slow Network Deployment Creation

    Useful advice, but not entirely practical in a corporate environment with a central IT function that would consider it suicidal to switch the AV off at server and desktop!

    Come on Autodesk if you can make this work for standalone installs why not for NLM deployments?

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    Default Re: Slow Network Deployment Creation

    Quote Originally Posted by Lunkwill View Post
    Useful advice, but not entirely practical in a corporate environment with a central IT function that would consider it suicidal to switch the AV off at server and desktop!

    Come on Autodesk if you can make this work for standalone installs why not for NLM deployments?
    It cannot be Autodesk's fault. The AV is the culprit here. Since the network deploy is copying GB's worth of data the AV must be choking on the sheer number of files being placed on the server.

    I don't know about your IT, but my IT knows that sometimes things have to be done in order to get the deploy ready. Even if it means temporarily disabling AV.
    R. Robert Bell
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    Stantec
    Opinions expressed are mine alone and do not reflect the views of Stantec.

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    Default Re: Slow Network Deployment Creation

    At the very least, the existence of the issue reflects on limited testing and arguably poor qa/qc on autodesk's part. If a deployment is taking 10 plus hours to create, then something other than a simple copy to a network folder is happening, and it's not happening in a way that the AV is happy with.

    If I can copy several hundred Gb of files to a USB drive in 20 minutes, and it takes 10 to 20 hours to copy a paltry few Gigabytes files to a deployment folder from a CD, with the same AV running, then there's a problem somewhere, and it's not wholly the fault of the AV vendor. I'm just as unhappy with symantec's AV software as the next guy -- seems to be more of a memory hog than it ought to be, and misses a lot of malware.

    But, it's something that Autodesk could have tested against. While it may be unreasonable to expect the software deployment developers to validate their packaging against every possible AV, it's certainly reasonable to expect them to validate and test their deployment creation against 4 or 5 of the AV packages most commonly used.

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    Default Re: Slow Network Deployment Creation

    We run SEP (Symantec Endpoint Protection) and we don't have any issues with the AV blocking installs.

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    Default Re: Slow Network Deployment Creation

    Quote Originally Posted by heath.simone View Post
    We run SEP (Symantec Endpoint Protection) and we don't have any issues with the AV blocking installs.
    We're running that, too, and I've not had any issues. While working at another company we were using Kaspersky and had to shut it down any time we did anything with any Autodesk related software or the installation/deployment would have something wrong with it.

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