1. Introduction

  2. • Introduction to installing and configuring ArcGIS Desktop
  3. • Minimum System requirements
  4. • Python Requirement
  5. • Questions, feedback, and information

  6. Preparing to install

  7. • Authorizing your Software
  8. • Existing ArcGIS Desktop users

  9. The license manager

  10. • Installing the license manager
  11. • About the license manager

  12. Installing ArcGIS Desktop

  13. • Installation overview
  14. • Installing ArcGIS Desktop on your computer
  15. • Authorizing your software
  16. • The ArcGIS Administrator
  17. • Installing a localized ArcGIS Desktop setup
  18. • Installing ArcGIS Desktop on a network server
  19. • Installing ArcGIS Desktop from a network server
  20. • Installing ArcGIS Desktop silently

  21. Adding additional installation components

  22. • Adding additional installation features
  23. • Adding tutorial data
  24. • Installing ArcGIS Desktop Developer Resources
  25. • Installing the ArcGIS extensions
  26. • Uninstalling ArcGIS Desktop
  27. • Copyright information

Installing ArcGIS Desktop on a network server

System administrators can install ArcGIS Desktop on a network server to allow many users to install on their individual machines from this central location. The network server installation may also be used to deploy ArcGIS Desktop to client machines. To assist you in deploying ArcGIS in your environment, a white paper is available with detailed information. You can locate the ArcGIS Enterprise Deployment white paper on the support site available through My Esri.

The network server installation copies the ArcGIS Desktop installation files to the central network server location. The software is not available to run on the network server machine. Users must run the setup program, setup.exe, from the network server on their individual machines to install ArcGIS Desktop. To make other setups available—Tutorial Data, Data Interoperability, or any other required installations—copy the setup contents to the network server and inform your users of the location, or perform an administrative installation point for each of these resources.

How to install ArcGIS Desktop on a network server

  1. Make sure that your network server and client machines meet the minimum system requirements.
  2. An administrative installation of ArcGIS Desktop is performed using command line parameters. Run this command from the command line to install an administrative installation of ArcGIS Desktop: 
     <setup location>\setup.exe /a /qb

    An additional command line parameter is available:

    TARGETDIR=<installation directory> can be used to specify an installation location for the administrative installation files on the network server. The default location is C:\Program Files\ArcGIS, which will be used if no TARGETDIR parameter is given. The default location on a 64-bit operating system is C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS.

    NoteNote:

    /qb provides the basic UI of progress status and error handling; /qn provides no UI at all.

  3. Follow the instructions on the screen.

NoteNote:

ArcGIS Desktop requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable (x86) Update 5. If the Visual C++ 2017 Update 5 Redistributable is not already installed, running setup.exe will install it before setup.msi is launched. Setup.msi will not install if Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable (x86) Update 5 is not already installed.

Provide your users with the instructions available in Installing ArcGIS Desktop from a network server location.

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