Correct. When the particular CS3 program is run, it will ask for a
serial number.
Have sent you the CS3 "Installation Woes" details!
On the 24/06/2008 14:49, Oliver Marshall wrote the following:
Interesting, so if I replace that registration DB with an unmodified one
I could effectively make a registered install an unregistered one,
causing the user to be prompted to enter a serial on first use? That
would be absolutely ideal.
Olly
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter van Houten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 June 2008 12:51
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Adobe CS Suite roll out and Windows networks
OK ~ I'll dig it out and send it to you.
If the 50 systems are presently disparate in their content, I would go
the single image route if possible. Believe me when I say it took
*weeks* to get my client up and running because each system had to be
installed separately due to the differing mix of software on each.
CS3 products maintain a SQLite "registration" database at:
c:\program files\common files\adobe\adobe pcd\cache\cache.db
If you replace that file with the original, unmodified version (before
registration), it will redo the registration procedure. The
unadulterated file is 10,240 bytes.
Be mindful that *all* installed CS3 products will be affected by this
procedure.
If you are in any doubt as to how problematic this software can be,
Google "adobe cs3 installation problems"...
On the 24/06/2008 13:22, Oliver Marshall wrote the following:
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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