Well, what can I say, at least it’s not as late as last year? đł 2023 has introduced even more issues with uninstalls, which I will cover in detail in a blog post on Friday. But the short story is that 2023 is even worse than 2022 was, and REALLY figuring out what is going […]
The Situation This post is way, Way, WAY overdue, and for that I know an apology doesnât really address the issue, but I offer it anyway. This year has been a rough one for me as much as anyone else, and more than anything I have had a massive case of tunnel vision. I started […]
Autodesk is transitioning to a new approach to Deployments (hereafter referred to as ânew schoolâ), and there are some issues to be aware of. For those of us in AEC 3D Studio Max is where this comes up, so letâs look at it. Many offices use a PowerShell based automation to manage software installs and […]
The Mess If you have started building your Revit 2021 deployment you may have noticed a BUNCH of new content being installed, and no way to choose NOT to install it. Youâll have a ton of template files in many different languages, and youâll have language specific folders in your Libraries, with nothing but some […]
Well, itâs that time of year again, and I have been madly building & testing Autodesk deployments and Px Tools recipes. And, as in previous years, I have been frustrated with the way deployment logs work. But this year, I think I happened upon a solution! Default Behavior First off, a little background. When you […]
In the previous two installments of this series, we looked at “old school” uninstalls, and “new school” Microsoft Store uninstalls. Those installments acted as an introduction to Uninstalls in general, in part because the examples were pretty simple. In this installment we’ll be looking into Dynamo uninstalls, and there simplicity, consistency, even rationality go out […]
In the last installment we looked at normal uninstalls, the stuff we have dealt with going back to Windows XP and even earlier. And while there is a lot of variation in the HOW of Uninstalls, and the Install that comes first, the underlying situation is pretty simple. Programs get installed when WE trigger the […]
Recently I got a request from Daniel Hurtubise at RPBW, to look into automating the uninstall of ALL installed flavors of Dynamo. That led me to digging into the nasty details of Dynamo uninstalls, and uninstalls in general. I thought it would be worth sharing what I discovered. But thatâs going to be a long […]
Over the last few weeks I have been neck deep in reworking the way Px Tools handles Exit Codes, which has included extensive notes on the vagaries of Exit Code usage by Autodesk and others, to ensure that Px Tools 4.0 handles this better and more flexibly/extensibly than 3.X. Error Codes are, of course, numeric […]
Last year in Px Tools 3.4.2 I implemented some “experimental” tasks, to test a variety of situations. One of those was ManagePinnedShortcut_Ex, which gave us back the Pin to Taskbar functionality in Windows 10 that Microsoft had blocked. This solution was somewhat… kludgy, but it seemed to work without side effects. A few weeks ago […]