The impact on supporting tooling (setup + update tech), customer support processes, documentation is significant. If our observation is true that setup.exe cannot be used directly for “silent installation” then that’s a rather important point which I would’ve expected to be communicated. There are references to many different kinds of GUIDs. The deployment consists of an installation image (more or less what the OEM installation wizard creates) and a special Collection.xml which contains actions for “Installer.exe”. The process also changed for AutoCAD 2023 and it seems that for silent installation, it is now required to create a deployment and use their new “Installer.exe” to run a “deploy” action which then runs in “silent” mode.

We were unable to get it running in “silent” mode.

In version 2023 the generated setup.exe does not react on any of the known commandline args. Until version 2022 it generated a setup.exe which could be launched in “silent” mode. It seems Autodesk changed the way the generated installer works.

Instaling Autodesk AutoCAD 2024.1.1