Chapter 2 Installing PowerDesigner


Installing PowerDesigner in Administrative mode

If you are a system administrator and you want to allow users to install and use PowerDesigner from a network machine, you have to use the administrative option of the PowerDesigner Setup program.

When you perform an administrative installation, you should respect the following architecture:

Roadmap

  1. Copy the files on a server using the /a setup command. The server stores the PowerDesigner files that will be executed from the client machines.
  2. Run an administrative installation on each client machine in order to modify their registry. During installation, PowerDesigner prompts you to provide the path of the server where the PowerDesigner modules are installed. If you provide a path with an incomplete installation, a message is displayed to warn you.

    For more information about the stand-alone installation process, see section Installing the stand-alone version of PowerDesigner.

Upgrading an administrative install

If you want to pass the administrative install command to an upgrade package downloaded from the web, you have to use the following syntax:

<name of the executable file.exe> -a <argument>
pdupgrade.exe -a /a

Where -a is used to specify that command </a> is targeted to the executable file within the downloaded package pdupgrade.exe.

 


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