Normally I only ever install Autocad on one computer at a time, upgrading someone whenever they say "Yea, upgrade me." For this reason, I have just installed from the DVD that Autodesk ships us and left it at that.
Pursuant to the recommendations that my bosses and I came to my performance evaluation (which has become less of a performance eval, given I've been here 5 years, and more of a "what CAD Management tasks we'd like to see in the future") I am to upgrade every installation of Autocad to the 2010 version.
I chose to do this early Saturday before I go shooting guns (pre-scheduled stress relief)
I need to do this on 5 computers total. I would like to just walk around and do them all at the same time, despite being paid by the hour.
We do stand-alone installations. No reason to change, so I'm looking to expedite the stand-alone installation procedure, here, specifically.
Can I simply download the trial to a jump drive, copy it to the network, and then copy the installer to each computer (therefore only needing to suffer the USB2.0 speeds once, instead of once per copy-to-hard-drive, and network copy speeds are much faster) and then install the Autocad from the trial, using our subscription information to register it immediately?
Seems to me that it would be easy that way.
Any better ideas? Critique to my plan?