Installing ArcGIS Desktop on a network server
System administrators can install ArcGIS Desktop on a network server to allow many users to install ArcGIS Desktop on their individual machines from a central location. The network server installation may also be used to deploy ArcGIS Desktop to client machines. To assist you in deploying ArcGIS in your environment, a white paper is available with detailed information. You can locate the ArcGIS Enterprise Deployment white paper on the support site, http:\\support.esri.com.
The network server installation copies the ArcGIS Desktop installation files to the central network server location. The software is not available to run on the network server machine. Users must run the setup program, setup.exe, from the network server on their individual machines to install ArcGIS Desktop. To make other setups—such as VBA Developer Resources, Tutorial Data, Data Interoperability extension, and any other required installations—available, copy the setup contents to the network server and inform your users of the location or perform an administrative installation point for each of these resources also.
How to install ArcGIS Desktop on a network server
- Make sure that your network server and client machines meet the minimum system requirements.
- An administrative installation of ArcGIS Desktop is performed using command line parameters. Run this command from the command line to install an administrative installation of ArcGIS Desktop:
msiexec /a <setup location>\setup.msi /qb
An additional command line parameter is available:
TARGETDIR=<installation directory> can be used to specify an installation location for the administrative installation files on the network server. The default location is C:\Program Files\ArcGIS, which will be used if no TARGETDIR parameter is given.
Note:/qb provides the basic UI of progress status and error handling; /qn provides no UI at all.
- Follow the instructions on the screen.
This install guide is available in the network server location \documentation\install_ArcGIS.html. Provide your users with the instructions available in the topic Installing ArcGIS Desktop from a network server location.