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due to the large number of Pro/E seats I have to administer I would like to install Pro/E on a network server and launch from it. Are there special issues to take care?
That's how I do it. You need to have the exact same drive mappings for everybody. On the workstations everbody maps the CAD server as drive G. So I created a mapped G drive on the server as well and did the install there. Then I just put a shortcut on the users desktop to the batch file that starts Pro/E and set the startup directory to the top of our model file structure. Also add the path to the Pro/E bin directory to each users PATH environment variable. I also set the trail directory to $temp and added these lines to the Pro/E launch batch file:
cd /d %TEMP%
purge.bat
That gets rid of extra trail files that otherwise build up forever.
You don't need to set the environment on all pc's. Just adde the environment in the start script (bat file) Or better chrate a nev batfile, with alle the different settings you like to have and use the file to start ProE bat/psf file.
You can save this new batfile in onother place that ProE installation dir. Then it is not getting mix up on software update
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