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Anyone able to deploy CS4 and CS5 together at imaging time?

  • April 7, 2011
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donmontalvo
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Has anyone successfully deployed CS4 (using JAMF best practice of loading ISOs into JSS and setting as Adobe installers) followed by CS5 (using JAMF doc for Acrobat Pro and AAMEE for packaging CS5) on the same computer?

We're able to deploy CS4 suites without a problem.
We're able to deploy CS5 suites without a problem.

We are unable to deploy CS4 and CS5 together...the result is CS4 apps crash.

PS, not uncommon in production environments to run concurrent installs...totally without issues when both are installed manually.

Thanks,
Don

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  • April 7, 2011

Null Set.

CS4, CS5, working Mac.

Pick 2.

:)
-- Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Client Services
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436


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  • April 7, 2011

i install CS2, CS3, CS4 and CS5 all during imaging time. my macs work. i havent dont anything special and for cs3, 4 and 5 i use the "JAMF best practice"

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donmontalvo
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  • April 8, 2011

Haha...I wish I could tell these departments that. :) These folks are getting new computers, but don't want to let go of CS4.

I suspect there may be an issue with the CS4 images that are in JSS. I'll redo them and give this another shot. If this doesn't fix things, I'll redo CS5 as well (with AAMEE).

Thanks,
Don


talkingmoose
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  • April 8, 2011

May not help much but it can add fuel to your argument to let go of
On 4/7/11 10:40 PM, "Don Montalvo" <donmontalvo at gmail.com> wrote:
software:

As interpreted by our Sourcing folks, our Adobe volume license agreement
allows us to purchase a Creative Suite license or individual application
license and then allow us to install either the current version of the
product or an older version of the product. However, if we want to run two
versions of the product on one machine then we must have two licenses.

This restriction would be for volume licenses only and not retail. I have
no idea if some volume license agreements do allow for one license to
cover multiple versions on the same machine.

When our groups are faced with having to incur the cost of a second or
even third license (some want to run CS5, CS4 and CS3 or more) for each
machine then they really have to think about whether or not they need it.

--

William Smith
Technical Analyst
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-1492


donmontalvo
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Hi William,
Smith, William William.Smith at merrillcorp.com wrote:

In production environments, it's very common to run concurrent versions - I wouldn't take on any argument to try to convince production managers/directors to cut over. I worked side by side with many of them in the sweat shop...er...in the service bureau many years ago (late 80's through 90's). :)

Never had a problem getting written approval from Adobe to install concurrent versions of their suites, or even their font libraries. You'd be surprised how effective it can be for client legal and Adobe legal to spend a few minutes on the phone. :)

Don