jmcdermott Posted April 11 Posted April 11 After many years of not using it I decided to give fog project another go, I have it in two schools now and it is working really well, very simple interface, deploys using captured syspreped images like the old days, has application deployment built in. Built 2 machines in a classroom the other day while students were sat at them 4 minutes and they were logged into the clean build. And it is free and can deploy printers and keep track of users logging into the machines. Adobe pre baked in my image but also deployable, order is important with Adobe it doesn't like installing after office so my deploy removes office installs Adobe then installs office. 2
altecsole Posted April 13 Posted April 13 On 11/04/2026 at 10:10, BKGarry said: Well I went down the SCCM route, so much more "picky" than MDT. Looking at you Adobe CC deployment, I had you working in MDT but SCCM seems to hate it right now. Monday is going to be concentrating on that Create a Package, rather than an application. Run ...\Build\setup.exe with '--silent --INSTALLLANGUAGE=en_GB'. If you are installing multiple Adobe setups, reboot between each. 1
BKGarry Posted April 13 Posted April 13 48 minutes ago, altecsole said: Create a Package, rather than an application. Run ...\Build\setup.exe with '--silent --INSTALLLANGUAGE=en_GB'. If you are installing multiple Adobe setups, reboot between each. I am just trying a package rather than application now, to see what happens.
Gibbo Posted April 15 Posted April 15 On 20/01/2026 at 14:44, buzzard said: SO knew to come here for this, what are people considering replacing MDT with, I've only really used SCCM etc but that's not something I'd consider for the little on prem AD stuff I still have left? OSD Cloud look interesting but I've never really come across it or know of anyone who could vouch for it? Interested in peoples opinions! Still using it here. Had a brand new deployment server built by @VirtueTechnologies_Nick to deploy Windows 11. Simple, quick, familiar and effective. 1
KK20 Posted April 20 Posted April 20 On 11/04/2026 at 14:32, jmcdermott said: After many years of not using it I decided to give fog project another go, I have it in two schools now and it is working really well, very simple interface, deploys using captured syspreped images like the old days, has application deployment built in. Built 2 machines in a classroom the other day while students were sat at them 4 minutes and they were logged into the clean build. And it is free and can deploy printers and keep track of users logging into the machines. Adobe pre baked in my image but also deployable, order is important with Adobe it doesn't like installing after office so my deploy removes office installs Adobe then installs office. Ive been using FOG for years. It works really well if you need to do things in scale, can be cumbersome for one or two devices. If you have switches and infrastructure that supports multicast then you can have an entire room from wake on LAN to CTRL-ALT-DEL in under 30 mins all from the comfort of your office. You still need to create those mystical "golden images" but if you have a new creative cloud 20gig package, it is much quicker for me to build a new image and multicast it to machines. What surprised me most is that Intune doesnt barf and create multiple entries for machines after imaging, it does take a while for LAPS to update though, a good hour usually. Intune software installs are quite slow to pick up too (24 hours sometimes) If you need to image laptops or desktops with no LAN card than you can build a USB boot stick to liaise with FOG (there is a WIKI article on how to do this), yes you can build a lightweight linux stick with WIFI drivers, but this more of a pain than it is worth, it is easier to just plug in a USB NIC and use that instead (faster too, most of the WIFI drivers I added to the lightweight linux ended up with much lower throughput). The USB method is not as turnkey though. I would certainly think more along the lines of OSDcloud though, if only because more and more machines are eschewing LAN. (we are taking a different approach and using more and more chromebooks) 1
BKGarry Posted April 24 Posted April 24 OK All an update on deploying Adobe Apps via SCCM. 1 - Do one app at a time from the Adobe Console, I found that anymore than one App seems to go above the Cache limit at deployment time when using a task sequence for Machine Build, even if you up the cache settings. 2 - When creating the application, start as an MSI, going to the build folder in each one and select the MSI there, but then change the installation program to "setup.exe" --silent It should look like this. Deploy each app individually, starting with the CC client alone, and if you are deploying Acrobat Pro, do that last. 3 - In the task sequence, do an induvial step for each Adobe application, with a restart set between each one. 1
Jawloms Posted April 27 Posted April 27 Anyone got InDesign working? It just won't install for me. It's in it's own package, which I've tried recreating, and it doesn't matter whether I try and install it first or last, it won't go on. All the other packages install fine. I even tried installing it before Sophos was on. I've also tried installing it manually from the package rather than pushing it in via MDT.
Jawloms Posted April 27 Posted April 27 Not that I found particularly helpful! This is from me manually running the setup.exe; 04/27/26 10:34:28:388 | [INFO] | | ASU | MSIInvoker | MSIInvoker | | | 10524 | Build Version - 2.2.0.6 04/27/26 10:34:28:388 | [INFO] | | ASU | MSIInvoker | MSIInvoker | | | 10524 | Logging Level verbosity Set to 4 04/27/26 10:34:28:734 | [INFO] | | ASU | MSIInvoker | MSIInvoker | | | 10524 | Successfully fetched the optionXML content from MSI database ... 04/27/26 10:34:28:788 | [INFO] | | ASU | MSIInvoker | MSIInvoker | | | 10524 | The OS language detected for Acrobat (en_GB) 04/27/26 10:34:28:789 | [INFO] | | ASU | MSIInvoker | AAMEEUtilities | | | 10524 | Path to Process :C:\windows\system32\msiexec.exe Process Directory :C:\windows\system32 arguments being passed : /i "C:\Temp\Build\InDesign.msi" /qn 04/27/26 10:34:30:350 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 7648 | Build Version - 2.2.0.21 04/27/26 10:34:30:350 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 7648 | Logging Level verbosity Set to 4 04/27/26 10:34:30:350 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 7648 | Executing immediate custom action for install mode. 04/27/26 10:34:30:351 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 7648 | The CustomActionData string is : mode=install;sourceDir=C:\Temp\Build\;installDir=;origDB=C:\Temp\Build\InDesign.msi;installLang= 04/27/26 10:34:30:352 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 7648 | Successfully executed the immediate custom action for install mode . 04/27/26 10:34:33:982 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Build Version - 2.2.0.21 04/27/26 10:34:33:983 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Logging Level verbosity Set to 4 04/27/26 10:34:33:983 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Executing the deferred custom action. 04/27/26 10:34:33:989 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Obtained the following as CustomActionData 04/27/26 10:34:33:989 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | (mode=install;sourceDir=C:\Temp\Build\;installDir=;origDB=C:\Temp\Build\InDesign.msi;installLang=) 04/27/26 10:34:33:989 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | (mode=install;sourceDir=C:\Temp\Build\;installDir=;origDB=C:\Temp\Build\InDesign.msi;installLang=) 04/27/26 10:34:33:989 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Original database path is : C:\Temp\Build\InDesign.msi 04/27/26 10:34:33:996 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | OptionXML saved at location :: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\{1D19F652-E4BE-4B8E-8474-6DB955F57D5D}\\{1920792B-79AA-4C57-A859-5D408D9FF679} 04/27/26 10:34:34:016 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Build Version - 2.2.0.21 04/27/26 10:34:34:016 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Logging Level verbosity Set to 4 04/27/26 10:34:34:016 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | CustomAction Parameters obtained... 04/27/26 10:34:34:016 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | optXMLPath :: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\{1D19F652-E4BE-4B8E-8474-6DB955F57D5D}\\{1920792B-79AA-4C57-A859-5D408D9FF679} 04/27/26 10:34:34:016 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | setupBasePath :: C:\Temp\Build\ 04/27/26 10:34:34:016 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | installDirPath :: 04/27/26 10:34:34:016 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | installLang :: 04/27/26 10:34:34:016 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Initializing Custom Action Data from parameters 04/27/26 10:34:34:017 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Provisioning Tool path is (C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\{1D19F652-E4BE-4B8E-8474-6DB955F57D5D}\\{8997F4BF-E576-4273-A2DA-57B7D2EB5B5A}). 04/27/26 10:34:34:018 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Starting to run the custom action for install mode 04/27/26 10:34:34:018 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | STEP 1: Starting to parse Option XML. 04/27/26 10:34:34:026 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Match OS lang option selected 04/27/26 10:34:34:026 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Added OS Language (en_GB) to the install language fallback. 04/27/26 10:34:34:026 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Install language fallback contains following languages : 04/27/26 10:34:34:026 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | (en_GB) 04/27/26 10:34:34:027 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | (en_GB) 04/27/26 10:34:34:027 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | The target architecture of the package is WIN 04/27/26 10:34:34:027 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Self-Update BootStrapper Relative Path doesn't exist. 04/27/26 10:34:34:027 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Packaging style not found 04/27/26 10:34:34:027 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | No of updates found (0). 04/27/26 10:34:34:027 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | No of HD products found (9). 04/27/26 10:34:34:028 | [ERROR] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Failed to get value for conflicting processes... 04/27/26 10:34:34:028 | [WARN] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Failed to parse the conflictProcessInfo for HD media (CORE1.0)... 04/27/26 10:34:34:032 | [ERROR] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Failed to get value for conflicting processes... 04/27/26 10:34:34:032 | [WARN] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Failed to parse the conflictProcessInfo for HD media (COCM1.0)... 04/27/26 10:34:34:036 | [ERROR] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Failed to get value for conflicting processes... 04/27/26 10:34:34:036 | [WARN] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Failed to parse the conflictProcessInfo for HD media (KANC6.0.0)... 04/27/26 10:34:34:039 | [ERROR] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Failed to get value for conflicting processes... 04/27/26 10:34:34:039 | [WARN] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Failed to parse the conflictProcessInfo for HD media (CORG1.1)... 04/27/26 10:34:34:041 | [ERROR] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Failed to get value for conflicting processes... 04/27/26 10:34:34:041 | [WARN] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Failed to parse the conflictProcessInfo for HD media (LIBS4.14.2)... 04/27/26 10:34:34:046 | [ERROR] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Failed to get value for conflicting processes... 04/27/26 10:34:34:046 | [WARN] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Failed to parse the conflictProcessInfo for HD media (COSY7.8.10)... 04/27/26 10:34:34:048 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Custom deployment path doesnt exist in options XML 04/27/26 10:34:34:048 | [WARN] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Failed to find Royalty Bearing attribute info. 04/27/26 10:34:34:048 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Found the AppsPanel attribute info (false) 04/27/26 10:34:34:048 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Found the AdminPrivilege attribute info (false) 04/27/26 10:34:34:048 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Number of Medias found = 0 04/27/26 10:34:34:048 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Deployment Manager is running in Install Mode. 04/27/26 10:34:34:049 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | STEP 2: Starting to launch ASU AAM. 04/27/26 10:34:34:049 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Going to install C:\Temp\Build\ASU_6.9.1 04/27/26 10:34:34:053 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Latest AAM version with the package is (6.9.1.1)... 04/27/26 10:34:34:053 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Bootstrapper launch location is :: C:\Temp\Build\ASU_6.9.1\Set-up.dat 04/27/26 10:34:34:053 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | AAMEEUtilities | | | 12448 | Path to Process :C:\Temp\Build\ASU_6.9.1\Set-up.dat Process Directory :C:\Temp\Build\ASU_6.9.1 arguments being passed :"C:\Temp\Build\ASU_6.9.1\Set-up.dat" --mode=silent --action=install --edtWorkFlow=1 04/27/26 10:34:52:404 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | AAMEEUtilities | | | 12448 | Process creation completed. 04/27/26 10:34:52:404 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Build Version - 2.2.0.21 04/27/26 10:34:52:404 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Logging Level verbosity Set to 4 04/27/26 10:34:52:404 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | The return code from the Bootstrapper Process is (0). 04/27/26 10:34:52:408 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Created file with ACC Panel Masked C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\Configs\ServiceConfig.xml 04/27/26 10:34:52:408 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | Native-Utils | | | 12448 | Skipping custom installs, either path does not exist or not directory (C:\Temp\Build\pre) 04/27/26 10:34:53:058 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | HDPIMWrapper | | | 12448 | Conflict processes not running or killed successfully ... 04/27/26 10:34:59:885 | [FATAL] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | IPCInterface | | | 11016 | Operation failed 8 and errorCode 195 04/27/26 10:35:00:495 | [ERROR] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | HDPIMWrapper | | | 12448 | Failed to parse value for Node (/errorData/Error_Subcode_Details)) 04/27/26 10:35:00:495 | [ERROR] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | HDPIMWrapper | | | 12448 | Failed to parse value for Node (/errorData/ErrorProductID)) 04/27/26 10:35:00:495 | [ERROR] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | HDPIMWrapper | | | 12448 | Failed to parse value for Node (/errorData/ErrorProductVersion)) 04/27/26 10:35:00:495 | [ERROR] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | HDPIMWrapper | | | 12448 | HD failed to execute install operation with the failure(195). 04/27/26 10:35:00:496 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Error subcode details (, , ) send to ingest... 04/27/26 10:35:00:496 | [ERROR] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Product Media (IDSN, 21.3) installation failed ... 04/27/26 10:35:00:510 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Starting to clean the partially installed payloads. 04/27/26 10:35:00:513 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | No payloads are required to be cleaned up. So Adobe Installer is not invoked. 04/27/26 10:35:00:522 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Skipping Product Media (IDSN, 21.3) uninstallation, product not installed ... 04/27/26 10:35:00:523 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Uninstaller location is :: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Creative Cloud\Utils\Creative Cloud Uninstaller.exe 04/27/26 10:35:00:547 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Uninstaller launch location changed to temp location :: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\Creative Cloud Uninstaller.exe 04/27/26 10:35:00:548 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | AAMEEUtilities | | | 12448 | Path to Process :C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\Creative Cloud Uninstaller.exe Process Directory :C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp arguments being passed :"C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\Creative Cloud Uninstaller.exe" -u 04/27/26 10:35:06:680 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | AAMEEUtilities | | | 12448 | Process creation completed. 04/27/26 10:35:06:680 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | The CCDA uninstallation process return code is (0). 04/27/26 10:35:06:685 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | inside updat report 04/27/26 10:35:06:685 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | PkgID node not found 04/27/26 10:35:06:685 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | creating other nodes of report 04/27/26 10:35:06:685 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Inside Get deployment guid 04/27/26 10:35:06:685 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | Deployment GUID generated is {69BECF53-14D8-4A1C-AC88-ACDE14D6331C} 04/27/26 10:35:06:685 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | setting deploymetn GUID 04/27/26 10:35:06:685 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | saving report at C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\DeploymentReports\e2b777b5-232b-4073-b7cb-17774fb33e54.xml 04/27/26 10:35:06:690 | [INFO] | | ASU | DeploymentManager | DeploymentManager | | | 12448 | The install workflow is terminating. 04/27/26 10:35:11:276 | [INFO] | | ASU | MSIInvoker | AAMEEUtilities | | | 10524 | Process creation completed. 04/27/26 10:35:11:276 | [INFO] | | ASU | MSIInvoker | AAMEEUtilities | | | 10524 | The return Code from Create Process (1603). 04/27/26 10:35:11:276 | [ERROR] | | ASU | MSIInvoker | MSIInvoker | | | 10524 | Failed to execute the msi 04/27/26 10:35:11:280 | [ERROR] | | ASU | MSIInvoker | AAMEEUtilities | | | 10524 | The CCDA Uninstaller seems to be missing(C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Creative Cloud\Utils\Creative Cloud Uninstaller.exe). Skipping the uninstallation process. 04/27/26 10:35:19:210 | [INFO] | | ASU | MSIInvoker | MSIInvoker | | | 8108 | Temp path found for log files (C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\\CreativeCloud\ACC\PDApp.log) 04/27/26 10:36:09:632 | [INFO] | | ASU | MSIInvoker | MSIInvoker | | | 8108 | Temp path found for log files (C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\\CreativeCloud\ACC\PDApp.log)
BKGarry Posted April 27 Posted April 27 Error 195 is not meeting system requirements: https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/indesign/system-requirements.html I've had this when I was using LTSB back in the day, but it may be worth checking the version level of windows and other requirements in the link above. 1
Jawloms Posted April 27 Posted April 27 It's a test device with only 4GB of RAM....... I reckon that'll be it! I'll try it again on a device with 8GB. Thank you.
old_n07 Posted April 27 Posted April 27 On 24/04/2026 at 09:14, BKGarry said: OK All an update on deploying Adobe Apps via SCCM. 1 - Do one app at a time from the Adobe Console, I found that anymore than one App seems to go above the Cache limit at deployment time when using a task sequence for Machine Build, even if you up the cache settings. 2 - When creating the application, start as an MSI, going to the build folder in each one and select the MSI there, but then change the installation program to "setup.exe" --silent It should look like this. Deploy each app individually, starting with the CC client alone, and if you are deploying Acrobat Pro, do that last. 3 - In the task sequence, do an induvial step for each Adobe application, with a restart set between each one. I've only had issues with Acrobat pro not deploying via the MSI and needing the setup.exe --silent to install, with all the other apps the msi works eg msiexec /i "AdobeAfterEffects.msi" /qn REBOOT=REALLYSUPPRESS /L*V %temp%\AdobeAfterEffectsInstall.log 👍
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