Difference between revisions of "Adobe CS5"

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This is a silent installer and uninstaller for products within the Adobe CS5 suite.

I've successfully used this process to deploy Illustrator and Photoshop CS5. I imagine other Adobe products and possibly the entire suite will behave in a similar fashion.

You need to grab a copy of the Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition for CS5. It's currently available here: [1].

The Deployment Guide is also available from the same location.

Install the AAMEE application, launch it and feed it the info it requires. This will include your serial number, installation media location, output folder and options on which 'features' you wish to suppress including auto-updates etc.

The application will create a folder in your specified location containing an msi file and a couple of subfolders. You must copy all of these into your software deployment location.

I've given an example below for my Photoshop deployment. The syntax is exactly the same for Illustrator and I'm guessing the rest of the suite.

Adobe Photoshop CS5

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<packages>
											      
	<package id="photoshop" name="Adobe Photoshop" revision="120" reboot="false" priority="10">
	 
		<check type="file" condition="versiongreaterorequal" path="%programfiles%\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Photoshop.exe" value="12.0" />
	
		<install cmd='msiexec /i "\%software%\Photoshop\Build\Adobe Photoshop CS5.msi" /quiet' />
	
		<upgrade cmd='msiexec /i "\%software%\Photoshop\Build\Adobe Photoshop CS5.msi" /quiet' />
	
		<remove cmd='msiexec /x "\%software%\Photoshop\Build\Adobe Photoshop CS5.msi" /quiet' />
	
	</package>

</packages>