Vectorworks

Overview In a previous post I documented the behavior of the new (for version 2026) Vectorworks installer package. In this post I will show how I make this all work with Munki (and AutoPkg) to deploy it to my endpoints. Structure To accomplish everything that needs to happen, I have three packages. These are then chained together using Munki’s requires and update_for logic. The packages and their order look like this :

I was happy to see Vectorworks shipping a package installer. I did run into issues getting it to work as documented here The Testing I created a vw2026.plist alongside the installer package and here is what I observed: When no user is specified in the vw2026.plist file, no serial number preference is written anywhere. When spcifying a user in the plist file, the serial number is written to <userhome>/Library/Preferences/net.nemetschek.vectorworks.license.2026.plist Specifying root as a user results in the serial number being written to /Library/Preferences.