Revit, Phone Home

[BillyGrey]

RAC2008 is continually attempting to access various internet ip addresses through various ports on my system, 4-5-6 or more times a day.

Anyone know what is going on? It really seems weird that the comm center would badger
an outgoing connection that much.

This is the first version of Revit to constantly phone it in (whatever "it" is).
What's up with that?

[ron.sanpedro]

RAC2008 is continually attempting to access various internet ip addresses through various ports on my system, 4-5-6 or more times a day.

Anyone know what is going on? It really seems weird that the comm center would badger
an outgoing connection that much.

This is the first version of Revit to constantly phone it in (whatever "it" is).
What's up with that?

I would suspect Communication Center. And if so, anyone know a slick way to turn this useless thing off across the network, post install?

Thanks,
Gordon

[twiceroadsfool]

I havent installed 2008 at home yet, but im thinking thats going reign hell on my Firewall program, lol. Nothing gets access outside without a few clicks...

I guess ill have to disable it, grant it forever, or get interrupted alot. Hehe...

[patricks]

Try opening the comm. center and check the settings to see if it's set to On Demand. I have mine set to monthly.

It is actually a good thing to have, as AutoDesk will put things like known problem resolutions on there so you can easily see it. You can also set what "channels" you want it to download info from.

[ron.sanpedro]

Try opening the comm. center and check the settings to see if it's set to On Demand. I have mine set to monthly.

It is actually a good thing to have, as AutoDesk will put things like known problem resolutions on there so you can easily see it. You can also set what "channels" you want it to download info from.

Good for me perhaps, utterly useless for my 50 odd users. In fact utterly annoying for them. And for me or them to manually turn it off is lame as well. But as it turns out, Communication Center, being a pre Revit tool, is actually managed via the Registry, so I can probably push the setting via Prism Deploy, or a script, which is cool.

Gordon

[Joef]

Really, if Autodesk learned how to use e-mail they could avoid this "Communication Centre" nonsense. I am on a subscription and would wager I get less than ten emails from Autodesk a year. A high percentage of those are reminding me to pay up. If they want to tell me something important there are better ways than turning my computer into some kind of trojan horse.

[dan.dankert]

I would suspect Communication Center. And if so, anyone know a slick way to turn this useless thing off across the network, post install?

Thanks,
Gordon

We created .reg files to run post install to turn off the Communications.
Here is the info out of one of our Revit.reg files.


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\Revit\Revit Architecture 2008\CadManagerControl\CommunicationCenter]
"EnableCommunicationCenter"=dword:00000000
"MaintenancePatchNotificationOption"=dword:00000000
"LocalPatchListLocation"=""
"EnableNonPatchNotifications"=dword:00000000
"DataPollingURL"="http://webservices.autodesk.com/CommCntrLinkCollectionRequest"
"DataPollingAltURL"=""
"UseAltURL"=dword:00000000
"PreviewMode"=dword:00000000
"EnableSerialNumberPassing"=dword:00000000

We made one for each version of Revit 2008.
Dan

[ron.sanpedro]

We created .reg files to run post install to turn off the Communications.
Here is the info out of one of our Revit.reg files.


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Autodesk\Revit\Revit Architecture 2008\CadManagerControl\CommunicationCenter]
"EnableCommunicationCenter"=dword:00000000
"MaintenancePatchNotificationOption"=dword:00000000
"LocalPatchListLocation"=""
"EnableNonPatchNotifications"=dword:00000000
"DataPollingURL"="http://webservices.autodesk.com/CommCntrLinkCollectionRequest"
"DataPollingAltURL"=""
"UseAltURL"=dword:00000000
"PreviewMode"=dword:00000000
"EnableSerialNumberPassing"=dword:00000000

We made one for each version of Revit 2008.
Dan

As far as I can tell, the only value you really need is "EnableCommunicationCenter"=dword:00000000
Once CC is disabled, the other settings become meaningless. I suspect I will be pushing this out with Prism next week. I just wish Revit was a real Windows app and stored all its settings in the Registry where they belong.

Gordon

[ws]

there is a bit on disabling the comm centre on this page of the thread on stability in 2008 if it's any help
http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=59118&page=2

[BillyGrey]

Thanks for all the input everyone.

I'll dig into the reg editor this a.m.

Regards

[Kevin.Sturmer]

This explains a lot! Thank you everyone! I was wondering what was going on and am glad I turned here before getting too far down the trail.

[ws]

I guess we should all read the manual :roll: ;)

It tells you in the New Features section that the Communication Center (as well as the customer involvement thing) can be enabled/disabled by running the cadmanager control utility found on the 2008 DVD.