You can deploy installations directly from the Option Editor using email instructions to start the installation.

1. In the Option Editor, click Deploy.
2. If you have 32-bit and 64-bit images configured for this administrative image installation directory, click 32 or 64 to view the machines for the 32-bit or 64-bit image.

   Installation availability and status for each machine appears.

3. Click Send Email.
4. Specify the network path to the administrative image installation directory.

   Typically, the directory path to the administrative image installation directory is shown initially as a Windows file path (for example, C:SolidWorks AdminSolidWorks 2011 SP0). The dialog box indicates This path is not a network path.

   1. Click Browse to specify the network location for this administrative image installation directory.
   2. Navigate to the computer where the administrative image is installed, and select the Windows shared directory specified for the administrative image installation directory.
      Do not navigate inside the administrative image shared directory (for example, into the 32bit or 64bit subdirectories).
   3. Click OK.

      The dialog box indicates This path is a network path.

   An email is created to instruct the machine owner how to install from the administrative image using the network location for the StartSWInstall.hta file in the administrative image.

5. Send the email to the users responsible for installing SolidWorks.

• Using a Mapped Drive to Deploy an Administrative Image
  A UNC path (\machine_nameshare_name) is the recommended method for specifying a network location for the administrative image installation directory. However, you can use a mapped drive as the location for the StartSWInstall.hta file in the administrative image (for example, U:StartSWInstall.hta), provided the installing users all have that same drive letter mapped to the administrative image shared directory.