Newforma has made some significant efforts for Fifth Edition to make deploying Newforma Project Center (client) to your user’s desktop via Active Directory as simple and robust as possible.

The method that has been used in the past has changed and we do not recommend you extract an .MSI from the “NewformaProjectCenterSetup.exe”, as the pre-requisites (Visual Studio Tools, Primary Interoperability Assemblies, and Visual C++ components) which are part of the .EXE, are not bundled as part of the .MSI and would need to be deployed separately, significantly complicating the deployment process.

Rather, we are recommending that the .EXE remain intact and placed on a network share to be called by a .BAT file which is pushed by the Active Directory process to your user’s machines and set to run on start-up.

The details of this process are fully documented in the following files which are included in the Installation and Upgrade deployment transmittals:

New Deployments
\2. Deployment-Installation Files\Newforma Project Center Fifth Edition Installation.doc

Upgrade Deployments
\2. Deployment-Installation Files\Newforma Project Center Fifth Edition Upgrade.doc

If you are considering push deploy methods or have had difficulty with deploying .MSI files using Active Directory in the past, this document is worth a look.

As always, if you have questions, feel free to contact Newforma Support.