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Adobe Flash Catalyst

  • July 9, 2010
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Hello All, Happy Friday

We currently use the built in Adobe tool in Casper to push the CS4 suite
without any issues, however we packaged Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 using
Composers snapshot method and it works fine, except when you launch any
of the CS4 products it is now asking for us to enter a serial #. At this
point we can't even enter the serial # that we have been using; the only
way for me to fix it is to re install the whole suite. Any ideas?

Patrick Bachuwa

Client Technical Services

Sears Holdings Corporation

Michigan Campus

3000 W. 14 Mile Road

Royal Oak, MI 48073-1717

Phone: 248 637-0350

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    • Kedgar
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    • July 9, 2010

    Hi Patrick,

    Give the Adobe Application Manager a shot. It is by no means ideal, but I have not had any problems so far in testing with version 1. You can find the download for it here:
    http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/enterprisedeployment.html

    Let us know if this solves your problem, or give you more ;)

    Later,
    Ken

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    • Anonymous
    • July 9, 2010

    It's because you're Flash Catalyst package is overwriting the license file. This license file (actually its two files, contained in /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD/) stores licensing information for all versions of Creative Suite.

    The solution to your problem is to either remove that file from you Catalyst package, and license Catalyst manually on installs, or creative a licensing file that holds keys for both your CS4 and FC-CS5 license and deploy it separately.Alternatively, you can just install CS4 before you do your initial Composer scan to create the Catalyst package, this way the captured license file contains both licenses by this method as well.

    My preferred method is to create a separate "Master" License File package that contains the license to everything I own. This way I can install any apps in any combination, as long as they fit our licensing model with Adobe, and not have to worry too much about licensing.

    I hope this helps.

    Regards,
    -Sean Hansell
    JWT

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    • pbachuwa
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    • July 9, 2010

    Thanks a bunch, how do we package the license files? Install everything
    and capture just that location of files?

    Patrick Bachuwa

    Client Technical Services

    Sears Holdings Corporation

    Michigan Campus

    3000 W. 14 Mile Road

    Royal Oak, MI 48073-1717

    Phone: 248 637-0350

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    • pbachuwa
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    • July 9, 2010

    Thanks so much Sean, this worked great, how do I go about adding all my
    serial #'s to the file? Do I have to load all my possible Adobe Apps to
    have them enter into this file? We have 3 different flavors of CS4 that
    we use. Master Collection, Des Premium and Design Standard.

    Patrick Bachuwa

    Client Technical Services

    Sears Holdings Corporation

    Michigan Campus

    3000 W. 14 Mile Road

    Royal Oak, MI 48073-1717

    Phone: 248 637-0350

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