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APTEE (Adobe Provisioning Toolkit, Enterprise Edition) policy question

  • November 4, 2010
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donmontalvo
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Has anyone been able to push APTEE commands using Casper? We've got adobe_prtk deployed (to /usr/sbin which is in the default $PATH for Mac OS X) and it works fine when you ssh to the box and run the command:

sudo /usr/sbin/adobe_prtk --tool=ReplaceSN --serialize=MasterCollection-CS5-Mac-GM --serial=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

We created a script to run the same command, but it doesn't seem to work. The syntax is correct, and the script is executable:

#!/bin/sh

/usr/sbin/adobe_prtk --tool=ReplaceSN --serialize=MasterCollection-CS5-Mac-GM --serial=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

exit 0

We tried running it "After" and "Before" but neither seem to work. Do we need to pass any parameters to the script? Or should it run using the above syntax?

Here's the URL to the blog if anyone is interested (I guess I spoke too soon re: pushing using Casper <g>):

http://blogs.adobe.com/oobe/2010/10/adobe-provisioning-toolkit-enterprise-edition.html

On Nov 8, Adobe will pull the wraps off AAMEE 1.2 (which will fix the last problem keeping us from pushing Adobe CS5 Master Collection to 1000+ users at one client environment). We hope to get this APTEE policy working before then. :)

http://blogs.adobe.com/oobe/2010/10/aamme-1-2-preview-at-mactech-conference.html

Thanks,
Don

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    • tlarkin
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    • November 4, 2010

    Not that I have actually used this, but in my experience sometimes you have to actually launch an Adobe app to get full functionality. I think Adobe creates some files on the fly on first run so you can try installing, launching photoshop, quit photoshop, then run your serializer command.

    Not sure if this is even going to work but I have had similar experiences with Adobe products in the past.

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    • jarednichols
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    • November 4, 2010

    We've been deploying CS5 serialized.
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    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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    • donmontalvo
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    • November 4, 2010

    Hi Tom,

    Our deployment strategy is going to be to push the uber-pkg to logged off computers. The push will include serialization.

    Thanks,
    Don

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    donmontalvo
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    • donmontalvo
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    • November 4, 2010

    Hi Jared,

    Yep, that was our original plan. The client asked us to deploy to all users as a Trial install. They'll provide a list of target computers later that we'll push the serial number to.

    So the issue we're running into is running the script in Casper. Is the normal syntax usable? Or do I need to use specific parameters?

    Thanks,
    Don

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