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AppLocker + Deployments + The installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator.

You learn something new every day!  I never even have heard of AppLocker and it's affect [i.e. security] on deployments. Please check out the article below for details:

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/The-installation-is-forbidden-by-system-policy-Contact-your-system-administrator-566-8530.html

Thanks to Matt Fieder for sharing this tip with the community.

AutoCAD [Electrical] Online Help not working

In this episode of tenacious troubleshooting, I was assisting a customer that was having issues accessing the Online help for AutoCAD Electrical 2015.

When the user tried to install the AutoCAD Electrical Offline Help, it didn't work because of VCRedist problem so we hacked it out from the setup.ini using this workflow:

https://screencast.autodesk.com/Main/Details/d0666815-9c8e-4457-aa3e-d7bdd26a47ae

Once it was installed, the help was blank, so we needed to configure the AMD Catalyst Control Center for maximum performance because it was a consumer video card:

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCAD-Help-Feed-Welcome-and-New-Tab-screens-appear-all-black.html

Once we got that going, we need to go back to try to figure out the problem with the Online help and it was a relatively easy fix noted below:

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/AutoCAD-Help-will-not-connect-to-online-servers.html

We needed to extrapolate this Internet Options settings from this article:

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Meta-licensing.html

Thanks to Ted Moreau for confirming that this solution worked.

How to command line uninstall of the Autodesk Application Manager?

Just a quick FYI on some installing and uninstalling the Autodesk Application Manager:

Deployment - Installing

In this article, search for:  What if I don’t want to include Autodesk Application Manager in our network deployments?

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Autodesk-Application-Manager-FAQ.html

To easily hack the setup.ini file, you can watch this video example of hacking out .NET:

https://screencast.autodesk.com/Main/Details/d0666815-9c8e-4457-aa3e-d7bdd26a47ae

Uninstall via command line [SCCM] of the Application Manager:

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/article/How-to-Silently-Uninstall-Application-Manager-using-SCCM

Thanks to Chris H. for coming that this solution worked!

Reference

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/installation-licensing/how-to-uninstall-application-manager/m-p/5519274#M101288

Tip: Enable Verbose Logging

Buried in one of the blog posts for installing software on Windows 7, is this tip:

Microsoft Fix It tool on How to enable Windows Installer logging.

 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223300

We used to use this workflow which is a bit more labour intensive:

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Enabling-verbose-logging-for-installation-issues.html

Another time saving Microsoft Fix It Tool on How to disable IPv6 or its components in Windows is noted here:

http://upandready.typepad.com/up_and_ready/2012/11/laws-the-proper-way-to-disable-ipv6.html

Mac OS 10.10 [Yosemite] + AutoCAD Mac 2015 + Column View = CRASH

Please check out this article for more details:

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-for-mac/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Select-File-dialog-in-Yosemite-crashes-AutoCAD-for-Mac.html

Maya 2015 LT + Windows 8.1 = Slow Performance in Viewport

Please check out this solution:

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/article/Maya-LT-2015-SP3-runs-too-slow-on-Windows-8-1

The workflow is also noted here:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-lt-general/selection-performance-issue-with-maya-lt-2015-sp3/m-p/5527396#M1315

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Reference

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