[Casper] Adobe Creative Suite 4

[Smith, William]

On 10/30/08 7:30 AM, "Rob Gaudreau" <rgaudreau at mail.colgate.edu> wrote:

> Hey All,
> 
> Has anyone tried to make a package for Adobe Creative Suite 4?  I know that
> the "New Adobe Install" was implemented to make our lives easier, but would it
> be compatible with CS4?  I do know there are now two Application discs for the
> Design Premium suite.  I never created any packages for CS3, so any info would
> be awesome.
 
Adobe also has a Deployment Toolkit for CS4 (Mac and Windows). It¹s free to
CLP licensed customers but TLP licensed customers must pay for it. No idea
what Adobe charges for it.

It allows you to pre-enter your serial number and suppress things like the
EULA, Registration and updates.

It works similar to QuarkXPress and other applications in that it simply
creates a mini-installer with an XML file for a silent install. It does no
re-packaging of content, which sucks. They have the audacity to call it
"AdobeUberInstaller".

I would hope JAMF could license the Toolkit from Adobe because this is the
only Adobe-endorsed method for mass deployment that I¹ve seen so far.

-- 

bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
MCS IT
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492