This guide describes installation, licensing, upgrading and administration of SolidWorks products for both individual installations and multiple installations.

Individual Installations	Deploying Multiple Installations
Installation Installation on one or a few computers.	Installation Creation of an administrative image that is deployed to a number of client computers.
Licensing License activation or network licensing.	Licensing License activation or network licensing.
Upgrades Moving individual computers to a new release.	Upgrades Moving multiple computers to a new release by updating the administrative image used to install on those computers.
Administration Modifying, repairing, and removing installations, upgrading to new releases.	Administration Upgrading administrative images and clients, Network licensing administration, Workgroup PDM vault administration.

SolidWorks Installation Manager enables you to configure settings for SolidWorks product components, including SolidWorks, SolidWorks Toolbox, PhotoView 360, Workgroup PDM, and SolidWorks SolidNetWork License Manager.

Workgroup PDM is project data management software that runs inside the SolidWorks environment or as a standalone application inside SolidWorks Explorer. Workgroup PDM controls projects with procedures for check out, check in, revision control, and other administration tasks.

SolidNetWork License Manager supports multiple license clients by distributing licenses to clients on the network. This allows the number of users to exceed the number of licenses by using floating licenses.

• Individual Installation or Administrative Image
  Should you install SolidWorks products on each computer individually, or should you create an administrative image and deploy the installation to all clients with one command?
• Initiating SolidWorks Installation
  You can initiate SolidWorks installation from loading a DVD on the local computer, accessing a shared installation directory, or downloading from SolidWorks.