Deployed installation of update packages

Starting with Hotfix 4 Preview of Archicad 15 deployed installation is also possible. On Windows platforms you need to use the MSI package available for each published update. You can download the needed MSI package from bottom of this page. On Mac platforms you can use the regular update package and deploy it via Apple Remote Desktop.

Deploying updates onto Windows computers by using MSI packages

Follow these steps to remotely install update on all of the computers of a network with a separate domain. You can distribute the new .msi installer package to all of the Archicad’s in your network by a Group Policy on the server machine.

  • From the bottom of this page download and copy the .msi installer to a shared folder on the server (all of the user machines must have reading-writing permission to that folder)
  • On the server, the administrator has to add a new Group Policy Object to the domain by using the Group Policy Management application
  • Edit the Group Policy Object: set a ‘software installation’ and choose the .msi file
  • It’s very important that, the application’s properties must be set to: ‘Install this application at Logon’ and ‘Ignore language when deploying this package’
  • Set user interface options to ‘Basic’
  • 32 bit and 64 bit version of the installer are available. If you have both 32 bit and 64 bit machines, separate Group Policy Objects have to be created for both of them. When installing the 32 bit version, in the dialogue, ‘Apply 32 bit version for 64 bit machines’ checkbox must be off. For 64 bit version, this checkbox must be on.
  • If you have different language versions, the installer can find a specific language version if you create a text file next to the installer. The name must be ‘searchlanguage.txt’ and must contain the name of the language, GER for example if you want to find German version Archicads. You may have to create several Group Policy Objects: one for each language version with its own text file. Please note that if you don´t do this, only one language will be updated.

With this process, all machines in the network will be updated at Log on, silently.(In some cases log on/log off may be not enough, the machines have to be restarted). The users will only sense that desktop icons, taskbar appears a little bit later.

You can check whether the update has been installed on the user machines, or on the server, checking the ‘autoupdate.log’ file next to the .msi installer (just like next to the normal .exe update).

Deploying updates onto Mac’s via Apple Remote Desktop

On Mac, there is no separate installer package for remote install. We suggest to use Apple Remote Desktop application. In this application you can send Unix commands to user machines. This way the update installer can be run on user machines remotely from a server.

Please, follow these steps:

  • In Terminal run the command: sudo /usr/libexec/plistBuddy –c “Add :Java:Properties:user.language string en” “folder_path_of_hotfix_installer/ACversion-buildnumber-HOTFIXindex-MAC.app/Contents/Info.plist”
  • Copy the update installer to a shared folder called for example “achotfix”. All of the users on the client machines must have read-write permissions to that folder
  • Archicad must not run on the user machines
  • Open Apple Remote Desktop
  • Open the list of the machines in the network (machines must be running), choose those, that have to be updated
  • Open UNIX command dialogue
  • Run/choose a user who has admin rights for all of the machines
  • Place the following lines into the “Send Unix command” window:

mkdir /Volumes/Install

mount_smbfs //username_of_administrator:password@machinename/achotfix/Volumes/Install/

/Volumes/Install/ACversion-buildnumber-HOTFIXindex-MAC.app/Contents/MacOS/installer.sh

umount /Volumes/Install

Download MSI package for Archicad

Download Language Windows 32 – bit Windows 64 – bit Last modified
Archicad 17 Hotfix 7 (Build 6004)
INT		 –   262.1 MB May 5, 2014
Archicad 17 Hotfix 6 (Build 5019)
INT		 –   260.5 MB Jan 30, 2014
Archicad 17 Hotfix 5 (Build 5014)
ALL		 –   254.3 MB Jan 20, 2014
Archicad 17 Hotfix 4 (Build 5005)
ALL		 –   254.0 MB Dec 9, 2013

SWE		 –   254.4 MB Dec 11, 2013
Archicad 17 Hotfix 3 (Build 4008)
INT		 –   39.7 MB Oct 15, 2013
 
GER     AUT		 –   41.2 MB Oct 18, 2013
Archicad 17 Hotfix 2 (Build 4005)
ALL		 –   225.0 MB Sept 17, 2013
Archicad 17 Hotfix 1 (Build 3013)
INT		 –   202.9 MB June 24, 2013

USA		 –   207.4 MB July 15, 2013
Archicad 16 Hotfix 5 (Build 4010)
ALL		   263.3 MB   284.0 MB Sept 30, 2013
Archicad 16 Hotfix 4 (Build 3827)
ALL		   263.1 MB   283.8 MB June 27, 2013
Archicad 16 Hotfix 3 (Build 3487)
ALL		   170.7 MB   190.2 MB March 4, 2013
Archicad 16 Hotfix 2 (Build 3270)
INT		   153.3 MB   170.6 MB Oct 4, 2012

RUS		   153.3 MB   170.6 MB Oct 9, 2012
Archicad 16 Hotfix 1 (Build 3014)
ALL		   133.1 MB   149.4 MB July 18, 2012
Archicad 15 Hotfix 5 (build 4056)
ALL		   136.3 MB   159.6 MB Jan 3, 2013
Archicad 15 Hotfix 4 (build 3898)
ALL		   136.3 MB   159.6 MB May 18, 2012