[Casper] CS3 Strategies

[Steve Wood]

Yeah, if you have any Adobe product on the system, the CS3 install  
will fail miserably.  You have to run a pre-install script to remove  
all current Adobe products.

And we too have had issues with the updates.  InDesign will sit there  
running for ever until you kill it.  And it doesn't kill easy.  I  
haven't gotten a chance to delve too deeply into it yet.

Steve Wood
Director, Information Technology
swood at integerdallas.com

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On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Thomas Larkin wrote:

> I can't remember the specifics, but I swear I upgraded a CS2 lab to  
> CS3
> with the casper package....
>
> Perhaps I ran pre script to just rm everything that Adobe puts out  
> there
> but I don't think I did that.  It was too long ago to remember the
> exacts though.
>
> Thomas Larkin
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>>>> "Brenner, John" <john.brenner at merrillcorp.com> 06/13/08 11:03 AM  
>>>> >>>
> The biggest issue that we have had with the CS3 installers are
> 1. They must be clean installs, by this I mean there cannot be any
> remnants
> of Adobe CS3 or CS3 like products installed prior to a Casper CS3
> install.
> 2. Time CS3 installs take forever.  On a dual g4 I have timed it a 3
> plus
> hours.
> 3. Updaters: If the updater is applied to a standard Casper package it
> likes
> to fail.
>
> Standard Casper install and CS3
> 1. Acrobat is Funky at best and there are differences between PPC and
> Intel
> installs.
> 2. Updates break the installs
>
>
> On 6/13/08 8:11 AM, "Paul Austin" <paul.austin at wachovia.com> wrote:
>
>> Hoping to tap the vast wealth of knowledge that is in this group....
>>
>> My company has finally purchased CS3 and I am looking for the best
> strategies
>> for deployment as part of an initial configuration. I have been
> testing for
>> several days with mixed results. Using the CS3 methods in Casper  
>> admin
> to
>> create a deployment package seems to only function part of the  
>> time. I
> end up
>> delivering CS3 that wants the License key on first run. (Note: I am
> using
>> Design Premium and an open license). The time it takes to deliver is
> also too
>> long for my liking. I have also been experimenting with delivering  
>> CS3
> in a
>> policy after the initial image delivery. Results are also mixed. I
> know I am
>> late to the CS3 game, but how are you guys doing your deployments?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Paul Austin
>> Wachovia
>> Information Technology
>> Enterprise Strategy and Design
>> 704-427-0903
>> paul.austin at wachovia.com
>>
>>
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