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ADOBE® CREATIVE SUITE® 4

Document Version 1.0 Sep 2009

ENTERPRISE

DEPLOYMENT GUIDE

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Page 1: ...ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 4 Document Version 1 0 Sep 2009 ENTERPRISE DEPLOYMENT GUIDE...

Page 2: ...rg licenses by nc sa 3 0 Adobe the Adobe logo Adobe Connect Adobe OnLocation Adobe Premiere Acrobat After Effects Contribute Creative Suite Dreamweaver Encore Fireworks Flash Illustrator InCopy InDesi...

Page 3: ...e Medium 18 Configuration TS Together on Server 19 Configuration IT Product Install Folder on Target 20 Configuration IM Product Install Folder on Physical Medium 21 Configuration IS Product Install F...

Page 4: ...ge Programs 48 Creating an SMS Package with SCCM 2007 50 Create a new SMS package 50 Create Programs for the SMS Package 51 Select Distribution Points for the SMS Package 52 Advertise the SMS Package...

Page 5: ...ng Adobe deployment packages It explains how you can use ARD and SMS to deploy Adobe deployment packages It tells you how to set configuration options after an install Enterprise Deployment Toolkit Gu...

Page 6: ...oftware 4 System Administrator Responsibilities An administrator s job is to take the install media for software purchased by the company and put the correct set of applications on each user s machine...

Page 7: ...e install that takes place when this package is executed will not fail because of serial number problems and that the install program will never prompt the end user on a target system to supply a seri...

Page 8: ...ment Toolkit Guide contains detailed instructions on how to create deployment packages 4 Testing the packages Once the packages are created you should test them on a test system to make sure everythin...

Page 9: ...package what you have is a folder containing four things Two executable programs AdobeUberInstaller and AdobeUberUninstaller Two configuration files AdobeUberInstaller xml and AdobeUberUninstaller xm...

Page 10: ...tep is to identify each user group that needs a particular application or set of applications to do their job If you or someone else at your company has already purchased the Creative Suite 4 products...

Page 11: ...the extended version of Photoshop exists in all versions of Creative Suite except for Design Standard CS4 PLANNING SHEET 1 USER GROUPS PACKAGES FOR CS4 PRODUCTS GROUP NAME PRIMARY APPLICATIONS NEEDED...

Page 12: ...ucts but you cannot create one deployment package to install both of them you must create one package to install Photoshop and a different package to install Illustrator If you purchase InCopy CS4 you...

Page 13: ...you to easily identify that package with its intended user group and usage NOTE Since this package name is used to name the folder on your system that will contain the package files the same operating...

Page 14: ...ovide a different path either by editing the path in the package files before deployment or by providing a path as a command line argument to the Uber program when you invoke it In order to determine...

Page 15: ...deployment configurations are shown below In this picture the term package is abbreviated to Pkg and the term product install folder is abbreviated to PIF As already explained the path from a newly cr...

Page 16: ...s near the end of the alphabet An absolute path on Windows begins with a drive letter and colon followed by a slash or backslash or For example H CS4_Apps PIFs WebPremium An absolute path on the Mac b...

Page 17: ...for any reason the product install folder is not removed even if this option is set to true PATH FORM Use a relative path from package to product install folder The package and product install folder...

Page 18: ...torage medium on the target and invoke the Uber program with no input or configuration necessary NEEDS Both the package and the entire product install folder must fit on a single medium For some point...

Page 19: ...e to host your product install folders NEEDS Both the package and the entire product install folder must fit on a single drive on the server For some point products the product install folder may be r...

Page 20: ...ving to edit this absolute path after package creation if you can place the product install folder on the same drive path both when creating the package on an admin machine and deploying it on the tar...

Page 21: ...where on the target locally or mounted and accesses the product install folder on the product media inserted into a DVD drive on the target NEEDS The product media must consist of only one DVD as the...

Page 22: ...ou are using an explicit network path you must have a standard network configuration and all users deploying the package must have access to the server specified in that path WARNING The Delete Instal...

Page 23: ...ay have to wait to specify some of the paths until that is done However by the time you are ready to create the packages all of this information should be filled out for the chosen configuration Argum...

Page 24: ...ived when you purchased your product The toolkit only accepts volume serial numbers USER GROUP S Record the names of the user group or groups that will be served by this package This is a bookkeeping...

Page 25: ...end users when it purchases the product and the end users have no need to see it If you wish to suppress the EULA screen in the applications you can choose the Suppress EULA option in the toolkit GUI...

Page 26: ...option on Some of the deployment configurations recommend or require this option be turned off Consult your configuration choice for this package so you choose the correct setting You can choose the...

Page 27: ...supporting components you want to include in this package if any in this field of the worksheet This list will be short as most of the supporting components are either required or not available for a...

Page 28: ...l number is fake for obvious reasons Also the actual planning sheet contains more lines at the bottom they were removed here to save space in the document The MEDIA FILES LOCATION path will be the loc...

Page 29: ...table gives a brief description of each shared component PLANNING SHEET 2 CS4 DEPLOYMENT PACKAGE SPECIFICATION PACKAGE NAME BBBBBBBBLAYOUT CS4 PRODUCT PLATFORM PURCHASED Design Premium for Windows PAC...

Page 30: ...adata editor for organizing browsing locating and viewing media rich creative assets Provides centralized access to project files and global settings as well as to XMP metadata tagging and searching c...

Page 31: ...choice for the application on the top A designates an optional component that is not selected when the toolkit displays the list but can be selected The only component for which this is true is Acrob...

Page 32: ...other regions NA Required for Flash Illustrator InDesign and Photoshop Adobe Color Photoshop Specific CS4 Specific color profiles required for Photoshop Adobe Color Recommended Settings CS4 Recommend...

Page 33: ...hotoshop Adobe MotionPicture Color Files CS4 Color settings required by After Effects Adobe Output Module Export format utility required by most of the CS4 applications Adobe PDF Library Files CS4 In...

Page 34: ...re it is not necessary for you to record the names of required component on the package specification worksheet A gray shaded cell means that the component on the left is not available as an optional...

Page 35: ...R Default Language R R R R R R R R R R R Dynamiclink Support R R R R R ExtendScript Toolkit O O O O O R R R R O O Flash Player 10 Active X R Flash Player 10 Plugin R Fonts All R R R R R R O R InDesig...

Page 36: ...sible for use by the toolkit choose a convenient location for the toolkit to access the product install folder For configuration IM the best choice is to insert the disk into a DVD drive on the admin...

Page 37: ...s TT TM and TS always require package editing as they use a relative path between the package and the product install folder Replace the value of the InstallerLocation element in the package files wit...

Page 38: ...her navigate into the package folder or provide a complete path to the folder to invoke the Uber programs Test your package on a system that meets the performance requirements for the applications you...

Page 39: ...the uninstall is finished check the install location to see that the applications were removed Code Description Code Description 0 Application installed successfully 8 Exit and restart 1 Unable to pa...

Page 40: ...your admin machine 4 You have already defined an ARD group that includes all the target systems to which you want to deploy the Adobe package If using configuration TS you have also defined a group f...

Page 41: ...the Run Command As area you can choose Current Console User on Target System you do not need to be root to expand the dmg file Then click Send The product ESD will be expanded into a product install f...

Page 42: ...Click Send If you have scheduled the task for a later time click Send Before the time at which the task is scheduled to begin make sure that all target machines listed in the Name area of the Send UN...

Page 43: ...using a deployment package 2 Execute the Uber program on the target systems In the main ARD window click the UNIX icon and enter the following command PathToAdobeStuff PkgName AdobeUberUninstaller whe...

Page 44: ...obe package and its product install folder is TS where the Adobe package and its product install folder are placed together on the same distribution server s Before Adobe deployment packages existed w...

Page 45: ...Adobe packages with the same product install folder For example you may have multiple packages for the same product if you are installing different subsets of applications from a single suite product...

Page 46: ...Browse for Folder dialog and browse for the desired path This is the SMS package s link to the Adobe product install folder containing the Adobe deployment package s Then click OK to select the highl...

Page 47: ...ion point s you just selected Create Programs for the SMS Package If the SMS package you just created contains a single Adobe deployment package you need to create two programs for the SMS package one...

Page 48: ...rom this screen click Next The Wizard Completed screen will appear Click Close to terminate program creation Advertise the SMS Package Programs You need to follow the directions in this section once f...

Page 49: ...ubcollections in the advertisement If you choose to include subcollections all subcollections of the chosen collection are displayed in the bottom field of the current dialog Click Next Specify the ad...

Page 50: ...the New Package wizard Open the SCCM console Navigate to Computer Management Software Distribution Packages Right click on Packages choose New and then click Package In the New Package Wizard do the...

Page 51: ...f the SMS package you just created contains a single Adobe deployment package you need to create two programs for the SMS package one to install and one to uninstall If the SMS package contains multip...

Page 52: ...eed to change anything go back and do it now Then from this screen click Next The Wizard Completed screen will appear Click Close to terminate program creation Select Distribution Points for the SMS P...

Page 53: ...se to distribute this SMS package Then click Next 4 Select the SMS package program to advertise On the Select Program tab The SMS package name and its programs are displayed In the Programs area selec...

Page 54: ...other options as desired Click Next 6 View the summary screen for the advertisement Review the information on the summary screen If you need to change anything go back and do it now Then from this scr...

Page 55: ...CS4 applications you have installed On Windows set a registry entry as follows HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Policies Adobe APIP enabled dword 00000000 On the Mac set a plist value from a shell script I...

Page 56: ...ration Save the file naming it application xml override Suppressing Updates with System Files This method suppresses the Adobe Updater for all CS4 applications on a system On Windows You can disable A...

Page 57: ...a DWORD value named DisableLUAPatching exists with the Installer key set its value to 1 if not create one and set its value LUA stands for Low rights User Account On the Mac You can suppress applicati...

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