HFSS15: Network Installations on Windows for Non-graphical batch solves without

To run a networked installation of ANSYS desktop products from a Windows node, two things must be done:

1. The Visual Studio redistributables must be installed on each node.

2. Either the machine’s local security policy or the Domain’s group policy must be modified to treat the network installation location as a full-trust zone.

Installing Visual Studio Redistributables

1. Navigate to the following URL

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=2051a0c1-c9b5-4b0a-a8f5-770a549fd78c&displaylang=en

If you are on a 32 bit OS: install vcredist_x86.exe only

If you are on a 64 bit OS: install vcredist_x86.exe and vcredist_x64.exe

2. When you are done you should see the following in Programs and Features in Control Panel (it is important that the version completely matches).

Updating the Security Policy

Instructions to update the group policy is beyond the scope of our knowledge here. Any Windows environment IT administrator should be able to figure out how to do it given the instructions below for updating the per-machine policy.

Pre-Requisites For each machine

1. Ensure that the.NET framework is installed. If the %SYSTEMROOT%Microsoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727 directory is missing, please install the .NET Framework 2.0 redistributables x86 package from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5

2. Setup full trust permissions for the installation share location

cd %SYSTEMROOT%

For 32 bit product version:

cd Microsoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727

CasPol.exe -pp off -m -ag 1.2 -url file://\Owner-PCpathHFSS14.0* FullTrust

CasPol.exe -pp off -m -ag 1.3 -url file://\Owner-PCpathHFSS14.0* FullTrust

For 64 bit product version:

cd Microsoft.NETFramework64v2.0.50727

CasPol.exe -pp off -m -ag 1.2 -url file://\Owner-PCpathHFSS14.0* FullTrust

CasPol.exe -pp off -m -ag 1.3 -url file://\Owner-PCpathHFSS14.0* FullTrust

The above four lines can be put into a batch file and run on each machine. If an IT admin is available however, he/she should be able to figure out how to provide full trust to the share on which ANSYS products are installed in the group security policy: the group policy will affect all computer accounts in that group and is the easiest way to update all the computers expected to run ANSYS products from the share.