I agree. I would recommend installing CS3 on a fresh/clean system before applying any patches. I have truly odd-ball behavior otherwise - even with AV not installed.
I don't pretend to understand it, but I tried variations for days before finally just submitting to installing on clean systems. On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Peter van Houten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
