MiKTeX installation problem

Hello all, I am requesting assistance in setting up MiKTeX in a network 
environment. After 10 years, I am figuring it is time for an update.

We have a number of workstations with identically mapped drives. To 
date, the TeX system was located on the server, including all 
executables and accessories, such as GhostScript etc. This made 
maintenance easy and saved disc space on the client computers.

At first I thought the "Rollout MiKTeX in your organization" option was 
fit for us, but it appears that only a repository is maintained on the 
server, and a full 400 MB installation is made into every client system. 
This is not what we want. I figured that a Basic Install *to a mapped 
drive* is actually the right thing to do. By this, the executables and 
all other TeX files will be on the server, and the correct locations of 
all files will be present on a client after performing basic 
installation and probably running initex. I guess one will have to run 
through the full installation on *every* client once, but future updates 
on the server structure will then reflect on every client, again, after 
running initex.

The problem I encounter is obviously a hard coded path that cannot be 
found for apparent reasons. I get this message near the end of the 
installation procedure:

fileName="Q:\texmf\miktex/bin/x64\initexmf.exe", arguments="--force 
--mklinks --admin --log-file=Q:\texmf\miktex/config\uninst.log 
--verbose", exitCode="1"

There are some slashes where there should be backslashes, I don't think 
I can do something about it.

I can probably circumvent this by running initexmf manually, but I do 
not know what else might be necessary after this command which 
apparently causes the setup program to abort.

Any advice is appreciated. Apologies if I might have overlooked 
something while browsing the archives.

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