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Hello,
I have recently been working on integrating Autodesk products into Intune and deploying them through this platform. Unfortunately, the process hasn't gone as smoothly as expected, and installations often fail. During my investigation, I noticed that in Patch My PC, the available assignment types are limited to "Add Update Only" and "Add Uninstall."
It would be extremely helpful and greatly improve my workflow if the option to deploy installations could be added in the future.
Specifically, I am requesting deployment support for the following Autodesk products:
AutoCAD LT 2023-2025
AutoCAD Mechanical 2023-2025
Autodesk Revit 2023-2024
Thank you for your consideration and support.
| What Patch My PC product is this new application request for? | Patch My PC Enterprise |
I've mailed you a possible solution for this problem.
Autodesk offers an executable that downloads the install files. the executable itself is only about 15MB.
A simple powershell script executes the Autodesk file, which in turn downloads the installer files from Autodesk servers. Which are considerably faster than Microsoft.
After this process is done you can install the package in the next line of your powershell script. See an example below for Revit 2025 but all previous versions work the same way. Same for AutoCAD etc.
Install.ps1
Start-Process -FilePath 'Revit_2025.exe' -ArgumentList "-q" -Wait -PassThru
Start-Process -FilePath 'C:\Autodesk\Revit 2025\image\Installer.exe' -ArgumentList '-i deploy --offline_mode -q -o "C:\Autodesk\Revit 2025\image\Collection.xml" --installer_version "2.10.0.96"' -Wait -PassThru
Remove-Item -Path 'C:\Autodesk\Revit 2025' -RecurseRemove-Item -Path 'C:\Autodesk\WI' -Recurse
Uninstall.ps1
Start-Process -FilePath 'Revit_2025.exe' -ArgumentList "-q" -Wait -PassThru
Start-Process -FilePath 'C:\Autodesk\Revit 2025\image\Installer.exe' -ArgumentList '-i uninstall -q --manifest "c:\autodesk\Revit 2025\image\RVT_2025_en-US\setup.xml" --extension_manifest "c:\autodesk\Revit 2025\image\RVT_2025_en-US\setup_ext.xml"' -Wait -PassThru
Remove-Item -Path 'C:\Autodesk\Revit 2025' -RecurseRemove-Item -Path 'C:\Autodesk\WI' -Recurse
Hello,
Thank you for the feedback.
At this time, we are unable to support base installations for most Autodesk software because we have two backend limitations:
https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-2583
https://ideas.patchmypc.com/ideas/PATCHMYPC-I-1463
Ability to support multi-file install packages, rather than standalone .exe .msi or .msp file types
We are actively working towards addressing these limitations. Until then, we can support the update packages for these software as they're generally standalone executable files, although we have noticed some Revit updates to be larger 2GB so we've had challenges there, too.