Adobe CS5.5 Master Collection - SCCM Deployment Help!

[superaz300]

Good morning all,

 

I am wondering if anyone has had success with deploying Adobe CS5.5 Master Collection with SCCM? I have implemented SCCM at a school I started as Network Manager at, and the only application I am having bother with deploying is CS5.5. I know this application is old, but unfortunately its the only Adobe licence the school currently has / uses. We are due to move over to Creative Cloud at some point, but for the time been, I need to keep this application going.

 

I have successfully customised the installation using the Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Tool, but I am not sure on the parameters to execute the installation within SCCM.

 

The school use Adobe Acrobat which is included in CS5.5, but I didn't realise this installation was separate to the actual CS5 installation. I would also like to create a separate package for this, I did attempt to do this but had issues with activation and it not activating against the CS5 serial number.

 

If anyone can shed any light on this from previous experience, I would much appreciate it. My only other option was to create 2 images, one without CS5 and one with it, but ideally I like to keep my images clean.

 

Best regards

James

[Chaniel]

We deploy Adobe CS6 using SCCM. I vaguely remember it being a pain to get working until I learnt it relied on Adobe Acrobat being installed first and then the full suite would install correctly.

 

Copy over your customised install created from AAMEE to your SCCM Repo, if CS5.5 is anything like CS6 then it should be a few folders (Build & Exception).

 

In "Exceptions\AcrobatProfessional" I created a batch file with the following

 

msiexec.exe /i AcroPro.msi EULA_ACCEPT=NO REGISTRATION_SUPPRESS=YES SUITEMODE=1 INSTALLLEVEL=101 AS_DISABLE_LEGACY_COLOR=1 IGNOREAAM=1 TRANSFORMS=en_GB.mst /qn

msiexec.exe /p AcrobatUpd1011.msp /qn

msiexec.exe /p AcrobatUpd10116.msp /qn

 

I then created an Application in SCCM with a script installer that called this batch file

 

After that, I created an application to install the rest of the software which is just an MSI Installer on the MSI that you made using AAMEE. Add a dependency of this install of the Adobe Acrobat application and set to automatically install.

[superaz300]

We deploy Adobe CS6 using SCCM. I vaguely remember it being a pain to get working until I learnt it relied on Adobe Acrobat being installed first and then the full suite would install correctly.

 

Copy over your customised install created from AAMEE to your SCCM Repo, if CS5.5 is anything like CS6 then it should be a few folders (Build & Exception).

 

In "Exceptions\AcrobatProfessional" I created a batch file with the following

 

msiexec.exe /i AcroPro.msi EULA_ACCEPT=NO REGISTRATION_SUPPRESS=YES SUITEMODE=1 INSTALLLEVEL=101 AS_DISABLE_LEGACY_COLOR=1 IGNOREAAM=1 TRANSFORMS=en_GB.mst /qn

msiexec.exe /p AcrobatUpd1011.msp /qn

msiexec.exe /p AcrobatUpd10116.msp /qn

 

I then created an Application in SCCM with a script installer that called this batch file

 

After that, I created an application to install the rest of the software which is just an MSI Installer on the MSI that you made using AAMEE. Add a dependency of this install of the Adobe Acrobat application and set to automatically install.

 

Thank you so much! This worked a treat, we have now got this rolled out to all of our IT suites with no issues. I must say, Adobe haven't made this process very easy at all. Thank you for sharing, much appreciated.

[Chaniel]

No worries, glad you could understand what I was talking about. Just read my post back and it's not the clearest, must've been writing that in between tasks haha