Installing Adobe CS3 via SCCM 2012 - Fail.

[free780]

It must be different for CS3 and the standalone photoshop. I have no proxy files.

[Dan_ATR]

I have here Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium.

[Dan_ATR]

Fixed...

 

So.

 

For any poor person out there the sollution is the follwing...

 

You don't need an MSI to install something as an application. You need to specify the application information manually instead. You can use all the necessary command switches in the application deployment command line.

 

To create an app, open the Create Application Wizard , choose Manually specify...." and press Next. Give the app a name and fill out the other parts of the form. If you use the application catalog, fill out the information in there as well, press Next. On the Deployment types screen, press the Add button. Change the type to Script Installer and press Next. Give the deployment a name and press Next. Tell it where the server share that hosts your CS install is in the content location box and put in the name of the installer along with the necessary switches

 

This is what I used...

 

"Setup.exe" --mode=Silent --deploymentFile="deployment\install.xml" --skipProcessCheck=1

 

"Setup.exe" --mode=Silent --deploymentFile="deployment\uninstall.xml" --skipProcessCheck=1

 

Contineing on...

 

in the Installation program box. Fill in the uninstall program box if you can work out what to put. Press Next. You will need to add a detection clause, probably the easiest way is to use a file system one. Have it look for the photoshop.exe in the appropriate place and press Next. Change the Installation Behaviour to "Install for System" and Logon Requirement to "Whether or not...". Press Next. Press Next on the requirements screen and on the dependencies screen. Press Next again then Close. You'll be taken back to the Create Application wizard, press Next and Next again. The application will be created, you then distribute it and deploy it as you normally would.

 

 

In .\payloads\AdobeIllustrator13en_US and .\payloads\AdobePhotoshop10en_US there are xml files with proxy in the name. At the bottom of each file is a section which refers to Windows XP, Windows Vista and a couple of others, but it doesn't include Windows 7, I deleted the entire from both xml files.

 

So Basically Remove the follwoing from all 3 files. Yes inc the AdobeWebSuitePremiumen_US_Volume.proxy as this was missed out.

 

AdobePhotoshop10en_US.proxy

========================

[

 

{"OS":{"Macintosh":{"Require":[{"Version":"10.4.8"}],"Exclude":[{"Version":"10.4.8"}]},"Windows":{"XP":{"Exclude":true,"Require":{"MinServicePack":"2","@servicePack64Bit":1

,"Need64Bit":"0"}},"Server2003":{"Exclude":true},"Vista":{"Require":true}}}

}

]

 

AdobeIllustrator13en_US.proxy

========================

[

 

{"OS":{"Windows":{"XP":{"Exclude":true,"Require":{"MinServicePack":"2","@servicePack64Bit":1

,"Need64Bit":"0"}},"Server2003":{"Exclude":true},"Vista":{"Require":true}}},

"Memory":{"System":{"Default":{"Require":"512","Exclude":"500"}}},

"Display":{"Default":{"Require":{"Width":"1024","Height":"768"},"Exclude":{"Width":"800","Height":"600"}}}

}

]

 

AdobeWebSuitePremiumen_US_Volume.proxy

==================================

[

 

{"OS":{"Macintosh":{"Require":[{"@lowerBound":1,

"Version":"10.4.8","Need64Bit":"0","NeedServer":"0"}],"Exclude":[{"@upperBound":1,

"Version":"10.4.8","Only64Bit":"0","OnlyServer":"0"}]},"Windows":{"XP":{"Require":{"@lowerBound":1,

"MinServicePack":"2","@servicePack64Bit":1

,"Need64Bit":"0"},"Exclude":{"@upperBound":1,

"MaxServicePack":"1","@servicePack64Bit":"0"

}},"Server2003":{"Require":{"@lowerBound":1,

"MinServicePack":"0"}},"Vista":{"Require":true}}},

"Memory":{"System":{"Default":{"Require":"1024","Exclude":"511"}}},

"Display":{"Default":{"Require":{"Width":"1024","Height":"768"},"Exclude":{"Width":"799","Height":"599"}}}

}

]

[Arthur]

I have no proxy files.

Not even in the subfolders within the payloads folder? You should (unless they are unique to the volume licensed version)?

 

You never said this in that post.

That's because you have the Web Premium edition and I have the Design Premium edition. I did mention that in my post.

 

Fixed

Glad to hear you got it sorted in the end. Adobe certainly don't make it easy!

Edited August 15, 2014 by Arthur

[Norphy]

Adobe certainly don't make it easy!

 

Not that it helps much but it gets a little better from CS5. You can have it deploy from a single MSI.

[Arthur]

Not that it helps much but it gets a little better from CS5. You can have it deploy from a single MSI.

Yeah. CC 2014 is very easy compared to CS3, but certain apps like Acrobat and Lightroom have additional programs located in the 'Exceptions' folder that either have to be installed before or after the main MSI. I'm not sure why the Creative Cloud Packager can't do this itself since it would be far less hassle!

 

Something else I noticed when removing CS3 is that Adobe's installer trashes the file associations for MSI and TXT files. So annoying!