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• From the begenning
  • Copy the iso to the local drive (i usually put this in c:\setup)
  • disable any connected network (best to disable the lan/wifi)
  • disable any running antivirus
    • you will need to search/goto windows security
    • under windows security you will need to goto the antivirus tab
    • when main antivirus is disabled, windows falls back on defender
    • you will need to disable all the defender settings
    • please note that defender will reactivate automatically after a while
    • open the iso, rerun the crack, reinstall is not needed.
    • Reboot to reactivate network & main antivirus

• Disable Updates
  • Hosts File Update
    • 127.0.0.1 genuine-software2.autodesk.com
    • 127.0.0.1 ase-cdn-stg.autodesk.com
    • 127.0.0.1 ase.autodesk.com

• Sample HOSTS file

• Registery Patches

  
      From the Search bar in Windows, type in “regedit”
      Browse to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Autodesk/ODIS folder.  If it does not exist, create it.
      Right-click on the folder, and choose New > DWORD (32-bit) Value
      Enter “DisableManualUpdateInstall” for the Name
      Enter 1 for the Data.
  
  
  
  If you use Group Policy in your company, you can distribute this key to multiple users via this process:
  
      Open the Group Policy Management Console, gpmc.msc
      Create a new (or edit an existing) Group Policy Object (GPO) in the Organizational Unit you prefer.
      Expand the User Configuration section > Preferences > Windows Settings > Registry
      Right click on Registry, and select New > Registry Item
      Use these settings:
          Action: Update
          Hive:  HKEY_CURRENT_USER
          Key Path:  Software\Autodesk\ODIS
          Value Name:  DisableManualUpdateInstall
          Value Type:  REG_DWORD
          Value Data:  1 or 2
  
  1 - Access will not start during device startup, and the system tray icon will not be shown. Users may still launch Access from the Start Menu, but when users close Access, it will quit the application and remove the system tray icon again
  
  2 - Access will show available updates, but will not display an Update button. Users will be able to see information about the updates, but cannot install them from Access.
  
  
  Logon Script
  You can include the following command in any CMD-based user logon script you may have configured:
  
  REG ADD HKCU\Software\Autodesk\ODIS /V DisableManualUpdateInstall /D 1 /T REG_DWORD /f
  OR
  REG ADD HKCU\Software\Autodesk\ODIS /V DisableManualUpdateInstall /D 2 /T REG_DWORD /f
  

*AntiVirus

Windows Diable Defender

I think I found out a very good workaround for the POLICY Setting getting reset to "Not Configured" every time you restart Group Policy Editor. 

I had the same problem and guessed out (correctly) that it was MsMpEng.exe 
running in the background that was resetting the policy back to "Not Configured".

So, before making any changes to the policy, head over to Task Manager, 
then to Performance Monitor from the Performance tab. Find MsMpEng.exe in any of the tabs 
in it (mostly on top in Memory or CPU tabs) and click on Suspend Process.

Then make the changes as required in the Group Policy Editor. It won't get reverted back. Please reply if it works, or didn't work. 


Step 2: Navigate to this path – 

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Microsoft Defender Antivirus.

Step 3: Locate the Turn off Microsoft Defender Antivirus policy. Double-click on this policy option to open a new window, check the option of Enabled, and then click Apply > OK to save the change to disable Windows Defender.

1. Press Windows + R and type 'regedit'.
2. Once inside, follow the path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender.
3. In that folder, create a DWORD (32-bit) key. You can do that right-clicking on the Windows Defender folder, and going to New.
4. Set the DWORD title do DisableAntiSpyware.and change its value to 1. 

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender" /v "DisableAntiSpyware" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f 

After the program is installed, it may be useful to exclude the following Autodesk folders in antivirus settings:

    C:\Program Files\Autodesk\
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Autodesk\
    C:\Program Files (x86)\common Files\Autodesk\
    C:\ProgramData\Flexnet\
    C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\
    C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\
    C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Autodesk\
    C:\temp\AutoDeskViewer\
    C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\

    AdskNLM.exe

Errors Issues

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At C:\Users\Anuj Patel\AppData\Local\Temp\Adsk-NLM\delnowmic.ps1:1 char:1
+ (Get-WmiObject Win32_Product -Filter "Name = 'Autodesk Single Sign On ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull