[Casper] CS4

[Ryan Harter]

If you have site licensing then you should have gotten an Adobe CS4  
Deployment Toolkit disk with your dvd's.  I just used that to create  
the package.

AFAIK Adobe licenses go into a database on the client, so if you make  
a package for that, the database won't work quite right, and if you  
make more than one package then one will overwrite the shared  
database.  We used to get around this by packaging them all on the  
same machine and making sure they went in the same order every time.   
That was in the CS2 days, however.

The Deployment toolkit makes a package (really just a folder) that  
contains:
/AdobeUberInstaller
/AdobeUberUninstaller
/AdobeUberInstaller.xml
/AdobeUberUninstaller.xml

The xml files point to the installer, which can be on an afp share,  
and running the AdobeUberInstaller as root runs a silent install and  
lets you suppress the EULA, etc.  My plan is to write a script that  
will:

1. Either use casper to copy the deployment package down or just mount  
a share to do it.
2. Run /AdobeUberInstaller
3. srm /CS4 Deployment Package

As far as I can think, it should be as simple as that.  Perhaps some  
extra testing to make sure we don't screw anything up, but that should  
be it.

What do you think?  Has anyone tried anything similar?

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
715.346.2716
Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Bozorgzadeh, Amir J wrote:

> I did it pretty straight forward. I used composer installed CS4 and  
> all updates. Ran all apps.
>
> This did not work. Or at least I get the licensing error I  
> mentioned. Adobe installer on Casper does not work. It does not  
> support CS4. Errors that it is not an Adobe installer. Jamf Software  
> verified this and said the next version will support CS4.
>
> Let me know how your testing goes. Where do I find info on the Uber  
> installer I keep hearing about? I am not familiar with it.
>
> Thanks for response,
> Amir
>
>
> On 1/7/09 1:22 PM, "Ryan Harter" <rharter at uwsp.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm currently testing it out right now.  How are you doing it.  Are  
> you making dmg's and using Casper's Adobe Install just like CS3 or  
> are you using the Deployment Utils from Adobe and using a custom  
> policy?
>
> I'm planning on making a Deployment package and a custom policy that  
> will copy the installer and run the AdobeUberInstaller application  
> for silent install.
>
>
> Ryan Harter
> UW - Stevens Point
> Workstation Developer
> 715.346.2716
> Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu <mailto:Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu>
>
>
> On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Bozorgzadeh, Amir J wrote:
>
> I am in the process of upgrading several lab machines to CS4.
>
>  I created the package and distributed and get a 150:30 error. I  
> sent an email to Jamf and they sent back some fixes for it. The  
> Licensing Service Update worked but is an applescript. The problem  
> is it makes a lot of calls to several scripts so Jamf software says  
> there is no way to make it distributable.
>
>  Has anyone had any experience with this? Is anyone getting CS4 to  
> install. My license is a multiple site license if that makes any  
> difference.
>
>  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>  Thanks.
>
> Amir Bozorgzadeh
>  Campus Technology Services
>  University of Iowa
>  2800 UCC
>  Iowa City, Iowa 52242
>  319-335-5480
>
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> Amir Bozorgzadeh
> Campus Technology Services
> University of Iowa
> 2800 UCC
> Iowa City, Iowa 52242
> 319-335-5480
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