You can deploy installations directly from the Option Editor using email instructions to start the installation.
You must change the administrative image installation directory to a Windows shared directory, so it is available through a network location (for example, \\machine\shared_directory).
Users can double-click the link to the network location for StartSWInstall.hta in the email to install SolidWorks from the administrative image.
In the Option Editor,
Installation Status shows:
- Pending
- The user has not yet run the Installation on this machine.
- Successful
- The user successfully completed the installation on this machine.
- Failed
- The user ran the installation on this machine, but it failed.