If your responsibilities include the enterprise deployment (installation and updates) of Adobe Creative Suite 4 and/or the Adobe Digital School Collection, or if you deal with tech support issues related to Adobe deployment and licensing, this article should be useful for you.
First, two existing Adobe Education Technologies articles provide consolidated lists of Adobe Creative Suite 4 and Adobe Digital School Collection deployment resources. It is important to note that there is updated information for Adobe Creative Suite 4 to include revised deployment guides and the addition of deployment planning worksheets.
Second, there is a dedicated Adobe Installation and Licensing blog designed to facilitate communication between Adobe’s deployment/licensing engineering team and you. The team is currently soliciting feedback in order to improve
the Enterprise Deployment Toolkit for future Adobe Creative Suite releases.
Lastly, the Adobe Installation and Licensing blog is a great source of information and illumination. Comments following each article also provide great insight. Here’s a list of topics covered thus far on the blog that might of interest:
- Non-Billable Hours
first blog entry, introductions and purpose of blog - The History of Creative Suite Installers
high level overview of Adobe Creative Suite deployment history - MSI, PKG’s and Adobe Installer Needs
more in-depth look at Adobe Creative Suite deployment history
Cool Tips for Deploying Creative Suite 4 – SMS 2003/SCCM 2007
introduction to the Adobe CS4 Deployment Toolkit (CSDT)- Experience Design Perspective for Installers
challenges of creating a good experience for complex installers and Adobe design philosophy moving forward - Finding Answers for Installation Difficulties
discussion of
tools to help users help themselves when installation failures occur - CS4 Component Payload Descriptions, Mac Versions
description of each payload in Adobe CS4 Master Collection (Mac), what it does, and what will break if not deployed - CS4 Component Payload Descriptions, Windows Version
description of each payload in Adobe CS4 Master Collection (Win), what it does, and what will break if not deployed - Deployment Tool Vendors
discussion of Adobe CS4 deployment using third-party tools - Updater Approach
design goals and solutions used for the next version of the updater workflow - Expiring Licenses
how to handle Adobe CS4 license expiry and how this issue will be handled in the future - Software Tagging in Adobe Products
using tags to help manage software deployments across enterprises - Survey for Volume Deployments of Adobe Creative Suite
engineering team soliciting feedback from customers
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