CS5 deployments using MSI and PKG installers

[talkingmoose]

Saw this mentioned on the MacEnterprise.org mailing list and thought I'd
post it here as well. I'm posting to the general "Casper" mailing list and
not cross-posting to the "Composer" list since it seems to have little to no
traffic right now.

Available May 28th, 2010, the Creative Suite Enterprise deployment tool, now
called the Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition, offers IT
specialists in enterprise organizations a straightforward and customizable
way to wrap Creative Suite applications as MSI or PKG for silent deployment
via industry standard tools such as Apple Remote Desktop and SCCM (System
Center Configuration Manager). The MSI and PKG installers enable a fully
unattended install on end user machines from a centralized deployment
location with customizable options and advanced installation logging.

<http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/enterprisedeployment.html>

--

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

[RobertHammen]

Some of us are already playing with this tool ;). Just can't talk about it, pro or con, yet. Expect a post from me on the 28th...

[donmontalvo]

...[my-response-censored]...

:)

[taugust04]

This link (also posted over at Macenterprise) may be of interest to you if you are interested in testing the pre-release version.

http://blogs.adobe.com/OOBE/2010/05/aamee_prerelease_going_live.html

-- Ted August
Salve Regina University

[taugust04]

I just wanted to bump the discussion on this. Has anyone been able to package CS5 with Composer yet? It looks like the AAMEE in its current version still is not what most people are looking for in terms of deploying Adobe CS in the Enterprise. Plus it can't install Acrobat 9.x, which now has a separate installer and serial number that is separate from the rest of CS5, so I'm hoping JAMF will continue to support and update the current methods of deploying Adobe Creative Suite with Composer and Casper.

Thanks,

-- Ted August
Salve Regina University