Installing Clients to Access the Administrative Installation

Once you have created the administrative install on the server, you can set up the client machines. The client install is the same as the standard PowerDesigner install except that it only modifies the client machine registry to reference the files located on the server and does not copy any files, so that no space is required on the client machine.

Note: When installing many client machines with identical options, you may want to consider silent installation (see Installing PowerDesigner in Silent Mode).
  1. On the client machine, map a network drive to the server location containing the administrative installation.
  2. Open Windows Explorer, connect to the administrative installation location and double-click the setup.exe file to display the Welcome page.
  3. Click Next to open the license selection page, select a license type, and then click Next again.
  4. Select the appropriate installation parameters on the following pages, and then click Finish to begin the install.

    Depending on your working environment, Setup may ask you to reboot your machine.

Parent topic: Installing PowerDesigner in Administrative Mode