Install the product prerequisites before installing using msi

Even if we don’t recommend installing our products through the msi file, there are situations where this method must be used. One particular case is when installing trough GPO.

In these situations, you need to install manually all the prerequisites before installing the software.

To know what the system requirements for each product are, open the product installation .ini file and search the PREREQUSITES value under the product ID section.

For AutoCAD 2012 the value is under the ACAD section and looks like: PREREQUISITE=IE;SSE2;DOTNET20;DOTNET4;DOTNET4LANG;VCREDIST2008SP1X86;VCREDIST2008SP1X64;DIRECTX;FaroSDK;MSXML6;WMF95X64;CM201

Inside the .ini file, search for the section corresponding to each component, by putting the component ID inside square brackets, like [DOTNET4]. You will find the relative path to the prerequisite component installation file.

This is the list of the prerequisites for AutoCAD 2012:

IE                                  Internet Explorer 6
SSE2                             SSE2 Support
DOTNET20                     .NET Framework Runtime 2.0
DOTNET4                       .NET Framework Runtime 4.0
DOTNET4LANG               .NET Framework Runtime 4.0 Language Pack
VCREDIST2008SP1X86   Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable (x86)
VCREDIST2008SP1X64   Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable (x64)
DIRECTX                       DirectX Runtime
FaroSDK                        FaroSDK
MSXML6                         MSXML 6
WMF95X64                     Microsoft Windows Media Format 9.5 Series Runtime
CM2012                         Autodesk Material Library 2012
CMILB2012                    Autodesk Material Library 2012 - Low Resolution
SNAP_PRE                     Autodesk Content Service
VCREDIST2005X86        Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (x86)