Peter,

Any help would be a good thing :)

I've thought about installing them all on one and then imaging the
machine and applying the image across the board (its quicker to apply
the entire image than to install the Suite itself). However I can't find
a way to get Adobe products to ask for a key when the user firsts loads
them, which means all the machines would have to go out with the same
key. I'm not sure what that would do to the updates and so I haven't
even looked any further.

Olly

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter van Houten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 24 June 2008 11:48
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Adobe CS Suite roll out and Windows networks

Oliver, my sympathies are with you. I haven't done any GPO rollouts but
installing CS3 products onto XP platforms was a real challenge.  So much
so, that the systems (XP Pro SP2) that are installed and working (about
15 as I remember) have been imaged and have strict instructions to be
left completely alone (no updates, service packs, nothing without
consulting us first).  Some of the programs (especially Photoshop and
Premiere) in the Adobe CS3 suite are *extremely* finicky during the
install process.  Suffice to say, short of an install to a freshly
formatted system, it was a real mission.  I have a short list of
pointers that I can send you off list if you like.

On the 24/06/2008 12:24, Oliver Marshall wrote the following:
> Anyone had any experience of rolling out Adobe CS3 suite across 50 or
> so machines ? If so, did you find any documents on how to automate it
> using any of the features in Windows (ie creating a premade package
> and rolling it out via GPO) ? We've got to get 50 copies of Office
> 2007 and Adobe CS3 installed and while Office is clearly fairly easy
> Adobe is proving harder due to a lack of decent info from Adobe.
> 
> Olly

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