Experience with CATIA OEM environment launchers
Hi guys,
we're using several CAD apps in our company, one of them being Dassaults CATIA. We're working with some automotive partners that require the use of their own environment package for CATIA.
Right now, we're using an app supplied by our CATIA MSP to launch these different environments and you can also select a license there and start some utilities.
At the same time we're currently implementing AppLocker. The issue we're running into is that the MSP requires that non-administrative users have write permissions in the folder where the Launcher (and all OEM environments) are saved (let's call it C:\CAD-Launcher\). This of course, works against the idea of AppLocker. In that folder CAD-Launcher, there are several perl and bat scripts. The folder changes frequently enough, that the hash option in AppLocker is not something I'd consider.
We had a talk with our MSP about the possibility if we could move that folder under C:\Program Files\ but they didn't really understand our request saying we're the first customer that contacted them about application whitelisting. They also stated they have no plans to change their current deployment.
So after that we explored another MSP and they're doing the same thing - a folder directly under C:\ and non-administrative users need to have write permissions there.
That can't be it, can it?? How do other companies deploy these OEM environments? Do you guys have any launchers that sit in Program Files or are maybe even signed?
I can't imagine that that's the way it's supposed to be in 2026