Article - CS245930
Support for Windchill Workgroup Manager and Creo View Adapters on Windows Server platforms in the context File Synchronization enabled CAD Worker configuration
Modified: 16-Jul-2025
Applies To
- Windchill PDMLink 11.0 M010 to 13.1
- Windchill ProjectLink 11.0 M010 to 13.1
- Creo View Adapters 3.1 M010 to 12.0
- Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 20.00 to 20.6
- Creo Elements/Direct Drafting 20.00 to 20.6
- Windchill Workgroup Manager (WWGM)
- Windchill Visualization Services (WVS)
- Dassault SolidWorks 2016 - 2023
- Siemens PLM NX (formerly Unigraphics or UG-NX) 11, 12, 1872, 1926, 1953, 1980, 2007, 2206, 2212
- Dassault CATIA V5-6R2018, V5-6R2019 SP4, V5-6R2020 SP2, V5-6R2021 SP2, V5-6R2021 SP3, V5-6R2022 SP1
- Not supported on Windows Server platforms:
- Autodesk Inventor
- Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016 , 2019, 2022
Description
- At Windchill 11.0 F000 and earlier, the Windchill Workgroup Manager installation was not supported on Windows Server platforms
- At Windchill 11.0 M010 and later, the Windchill Workgroup Manager can now be installed on Microsoft Windows Server systems without error
- 3rd party CAD application vendors typically do not support Windows Server class platforms an operating systems, because the applications are predominantly client based
- There is, however, strong market demand for supporting the configuration of Windchill CAD Workers, based on the Creo View Adapters and Theorem CADverter products, on the latest Windows Server platform OS releases
- This article provides the details of the limited support PTC can offer its customers choosing to deploy and configure the Windchill Workgroup Manager client in the context of a File Sync enabled CAD worker on Microsoft Windows Server platforms
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