Kudos to Jody Rodgers and his installer dev team (URL)

[donmontalvo]

Jody, for what it's worth, I think every IT admin would agree...you rock our world!!!

http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2011/11/adobe_cs_installers_three_year.html

Don

[talkingmoose]

Thanks for posting, Don!
On 11/21/11 7:47 AM, "Don Montalvo" <donmontalvo at gmail.com> wrote:

I really enjoy seeing and giving praise where praise is due. Jody's team
has turned Adobe application installation 170 degrees from a dreaded and
cursed chore to a (practically) non-event. Yes, Adobe still has a little
to go to get to 180 degrees but they had me at 90 with the first release
of AAMEE.

The Acrobat team at Adobe deserves some kudos as well for listening to
enterprise admin complaints. Most of the old frustrations came from their
self-heal shenanigans, which went away with Acrobat X, and they are
leading the way by providing Apple installer packages.

--

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

[donmontalvo]

AAMEE took an incredible leap from 1.x to 2.0...and then the jump to 2.1 was equally as impressive.
William Smith wrote:

I've got my fingers crossed that we see AUSST command line that we can address the same way as Adobe SUS...and the ability to add Acrobat Pro X updates in AAMEE would be worth bonus points too. :)

Where would we be without Jody? Well, according to the author, he would be taste testers for...well...you'll have to read the article...

Don

[donmontalvo]

(see [EDIT] below for correction...I really, really hate this iPhone auto-correct...but without it it's worse. :( Don)

[tlarkin]

I agree Don,

It is great Adobe is finally tossing us IT dogs a bone. I down right loathe supporting their products at times. At the same time though companies like Autodesk, Symantec, and other software giants are just as annoying. I am deploying Maya right now and it is not really that optimized if you ask me.

It is also nice that Adobe is listening to us, which is pretty much the first time this has ever happened I think. So, lets not be grumbling angry system administrators and just cry that their product is broke, but rather discuss how we can fix it. My boss always says no matter what technology problem he sees he knows there is a technology solution for it. Most of the time that solution is me, but he is right. We can start making those solutions happen. I just with the Enterprise tools worked in CS 4 as we have not upgraded to CS 5 yet.

-Tom

[#6]

It is also nice that Adobe is listening to us, which is pretty much the

On 22 November 2011 05:17, Thomas Larkin <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote: first time this has ever happened I think. So, lets not be grumbling angry system administrators and just cry that their product is broke, but rather discuss how we can fix it. My boss always says no matter what technology problem he sees he knows there is a technology solution for it. Most of the time that solution is me, but he is right. We can start making those solutions happen. I just with the Enterprise tools worked in CS 4 as we have not upgraded to CS 5 yet.

We have CS5 with Acrobat 9. It's still a nightmare for enterprise
deployment. CS5.5 and Acrobat X with AAMEE 2.1 appears to be where the
improvements lie.

I agree wholeheartedly with your collective comments. Things are in the
process of changing for the better.

Cheers,
Doug