Adobe Updates Download - best practice

[mhasman]

Please recommend the best place where to download full images of last Adobe updates.

I use CCPLauncher to build the distribution packages for updates, but - honestly - it works terribly. It bring me 3 errors of 4 times I build the package.

As Adobe announces Creative Cloud update 3.7.0.272, I try CCPLauncher today, and it brings me the image with previews version... which immediately notifyes me that "there is an update available". Very enterprise friendly, Adobe

Thanks!

[thoule]

CCP crashes on me about 4 out of 4 times. I downloaded a new copy of it, but I still can't get it to launch.. Ugh!

You can setup AUSST, which will download all updates. Then you can pull the installers out of there and do what you'd like with them. http://tmhoule.blogspot.com/2016/05/adobe-cc-local-server-and-rum.html

[mhasman]

@thoule Thanks, Todd!

Server solution does not work for me, in enterprise world I can not just take and setup the server/service.

Managing updates with JSS works for us as well, but only when it is possible to build those updates, or download from somewhere.

[thoule]

You can still run AUSST - that's just a simple program to clone everything on Adobes CC updates server to a folder on your machine (about 60GB). Then you'll have all the updates you need and can send them out with Casper.

If you dont want to download everything from Adobe's server, then you can download the xml file that lists all updates and pick out the ones you need. But that xml file is very very ugly.

[mhasman]

AdobePackageBuilder has been updated to version 1.9.5.141. I do not see any improvement yet, getting the same errors:
Fri Jun 17 10:56:40 2016 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Build Version - 1.9.5.141
Fri Jun 17 10:56:40 2016 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - Logging Level verbosity Set to 4
Fri Jun 17 10:56:40 2016 [INFO] AdobePackageBuilder - AdobePackageBuilder : Terminate packet received from UI. Quitting ...
Fri Jun 17 10:56:40 2016 [WARN] AdobePackageBuilder - Unable to process the UpdatesInfo tag.

[AVmcclint]

I wrote a script that users can run from Self Service to update their CC apps. You can read about it here
https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=19297
it works pretty well. On occasion some updates will fail, in that case if the user runs the script again, it will work on the failed ones.

[mhasman]

@AVmcclint Thank you Clint!