[Casper] CS3 & serial numbers

[Ernst, Craig S.]

This is a fun one. =)


 1.  There is a known issue (at least I think Adobe has admitted to it) that even though you've passed the serialization as part of the installation it might not REALLY take hold until you fire off an app the first time, then a second time. The main application you want to trigger first will almost always be Photoshop if you have that installed. If you aren't installing Photoshop as part of the batch then you got me.
 2.  Hopefully someone can correct me if I'm wrong. If you attempt to install multiple suites of applications (Design Premium and Web Standard) that would have overlapping applications (in this case Dreamweaver) and use different serial numbers for each suite (which you would naturally) you may break the licensing for the first suite installed. In our case we've starting using a Master Collection serial number for all of our deployments so one install doesn't break another.

But as far as your serialization issue. My guess is that if you fired off an App, got prompted to enter numbers, quit it, and started it up again it then doesn't prompt. Always launch Photoshop if it's an option. And no, I don't think Adobe plans to fix this. Maybe CS4, without it's 64-bit support for Mac, will have some things fixed in it since they didn't bother with 64-bit.

I'm hoping JAMF will be able to get their hands into CS4 early so they are well prepared for what stupidity lies ahead with it...aside from probably another sizeable space need for it.

Craig E


On 9/4/08 3:55 PM, "Slutzky, Ben" <bslutzky at mph.net> wrote:

Anyone else having issues with Adobe CS2 asking for a serial number even if a valid serial number was entered into Casper Admin? This is the case with all our machines.

Thanks in advance!

Ben Slutzky
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