Adobe CS6 on an Image?

[FN-GM]

Hi,

 

Do you have to do anything to get the Adobe CS6 to work when on an image. I have just deployed a new image and its complaining about licencing. Good job i tested the image before deployment!

 

Thanks

[AceDaz]

Hi

 

We have just bought into the Adobe Cloud Licensing, and the engineer I spoke to said not to put the software onto a clone image as it breaks the license. Best way is to deploy it through Active Directory. So I am looking into that, BUT Acrobat Pro doesn't have a MSI as it is classed as an exception. AND you need to have another package on there for Acrobat Pro to license properly.

[FN-GM]

I have MSI packages and deploy them via SCCM. But they take an age to install. Thats why they have gone onto the image.

[markcuk]

A bit off topic but this fixes the problem when recovering a mac using time machine and you had adobe installed.

 

In terminal paste this

 

if [ "$(grep -o activate.adobe.com /etc/hosts)" = "activate.adobe.com" ];

then echo "/etc/hosts is already modified"

else

echo "127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com" >> /etc/hosts

echo "/etc/hosts was successfully modified"

fi

sudo rm -rf "/Library/Application Support/adobe/adobe PCD/cache/cache.db"

sudo rm -rf "/Library/Preferences/FLEXnet Publisher"

say "Now, please wait for the download to finish."

curl -o LicenseRecovery111.dmg http://download.macromedia.com/pub/support/tools/LicenseRecovery111.dmg

sudo hdiutil attach LicenseRecovery111.dmg

sudo python '/Volumes/LicenseRecovery 11.6.1/LicenseRecovery/'LicenseRecover.py

sudo rm -rf ~/AdobeLicensingFilesBackup

sudo hdiutil detach "/Volumes/LicenseRecovery 11.6.1"

sudo rm LicenseRecovery111.dmg

say "Done! now start CS4 and enter your serial"

 

there might be a way to this on windows?

 

Cheers

 

Mark

[Valyyn]

We've got CS6 installed on an image and sysprep does de-activate it, so you have to use the Adobe Application Manager Enterprise to reactivate it.

 

First you need to get AAME and generate your serialization file:

• Download AAME (Direct link: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/creativesuite/AAMEE/win/ApplicationManagerEnterprise_3_0_all.exe)
  
• Install and run it.
  
• When it opens, pick "CS6 Serialization File" and fill it out. You need to save it to somewhere everywhere can see (mine's in netlogon\serialization)
  

 

Now that that is done, you need to run this command once on each machine after it's imaged. (We used Impero, but I don't see why you couldn't make it a logon script, or a firstrun command in sysprep answerfile)

\\<>\netlogon\serialization\Serialization\AdobeSerialization.exe --tool=VolumeSerialize

(obviously just change the path as needed to point at the exe)

 

This is the official Adobe documentation on it:

AAMEE 3.0 for CS6 available now! Removes puffer fishes!

Edited October 2, 2013 by Valyyn

[FN-GM]

Fixed it, change the permissions on this folder so all users have read and write permissions

 

C:\ProgramData\Adobe\SLStore