There is a slight speed penalty depending on your network to putting shared applications on a network drive. You might want to consider using a deployment tool like Puppet to keep the plugins folder up to date and in sync across machines.
-Alex On 02/14/2015 03:20 AM, Bo Victor Thomsen wrote: > Hi Mats (Old mapinfo-user ??) > > Take a look at this article: > http://www.qgis.nl/2014/04/22/qgis-in-de-klas-onder-windows/?lang=en. It > explains how to use the --configuration qualifier to make a shared > environment, where each user has a private directory for plugins and > set-up. If you use --configpath it's not necessary to do a "proper" > installation of QGIS - just copy the different qgis directories to the > user-pc - or leave the directory at a central network based share. > > You can distribute your QGIS installation to the local user-pc's for > performance reasons and do some cmd.exe woodoo to check for updates each > time the user starts QGIS. > > Regards > Bo Victor Thomsen > AestasGIS > Denmark > > Den 14-02-2015 kl. 11:54 skrev Mats Elfström: >> Hi all! >> I am looking for hints on how to deploy Qgis as a desktop GIS tool for >> a limited number of users. >> My idea is to have a common program repository with plugins, a map and >> layer catalogue, and some basic settings, but still allow individual >> users to create their own work environment. >> In this way, updates and configuration changes need only be applied >> centrally, and distributed on program start to each user. >> This is a windows environment on a shared corporate network. >> I wish to avoid a manual installation for each user, which would be >> impossible to maintain and get out of sync at once. >> >> Regards, Mats.E >> _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
