Cross-platform deployment? The crew at Absolute have your back. Their Manage product (formerly LANrev) works on both Macs and Windows and their PDF data sheet entitled Deploying Adobe Creative Suite 5 with Absolute Manage is out now:
http://www.absolute.com/Shared/Datasheets/Abt-AdobeCS5-Info-E.sflb.ashx
Check it out!
Jody Rodgers
Product Manager, Enterprise & Volume Customers
Creative Suite
What happens when Adobe ships something as monumental in scale as CS5? Does everyone go on a long holiday? Actually not. Many folks are hard at work listening to feedback from our customers, tweaking things here and there, and fixing bugs as soon as possible. With so many applications being updated after release it is difficult for IT admins to keep track of all the updates that come out. In fact, there have already been 15 released within the CS family of applications. I am happy to announce a new website/blog that will allow for easy tracking of all Adobe Creative Suite updates. This will allow you to track all of the CS5 updates by subscribing to a RSS or Atom feed. Check it out:
http://blogs.adobe.com/csupdates/
Each blog post will indicate the name of the update, direct links to the Windows and Macintosh update files, size of the files, a description of the update, and any relevant links to Read Me documents, release notes, associated product blog entries, etc.
All CS5 updates are now cumulative and therefore only the latest updates will be listed. Older update blog entries will be deleted once a new update is available for that product. For instance, if Bridge 4.0.4 is made available we will delete the Bridge 4.0.3 post as it will no longer be relevant as the 4.0.4 update would be the only update needed to be deployed.
Making it easier to track updates via this new blog/website is just one of many steps we are taking to make updating the Creative Suite easier for IT admins. The next big thing will be the release of the 1.1 version of the Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition (AAMEE) coming out in early September and will include the ability to package CS5 updates into MSIs or PKGs either individually or in the format of multiple updates. (i.e. Adobe Photoshop CS5 12.0.1 update alone or Adobe Photoshop CS5 12.0.1 update, Device Central CS5 – 3.0.1 Update, Adobe Illustrator 15.0.1 CS5 Update, etc. all in one big MSI or PKG.) But wait, there’s more! AAMEE 1.1 will also have the ability to bundle updates in a “über-package” that also includes the installable components of CS5. (i.e. Adobe Photoshop CS5 12.0 + Adobe Photoshop CS5 12.0.1 update or… all of the Master Collection + 14* updates!)
*You noticed that didn’t you? I said there were 15 updates for CS5 but then only had 14 updates in my example. I bet when you were in school you liked to find flaws in your textbooks and point them out to your teachers in the hope of extra credit. Well, Adobe InCopy CS5 7.0.2 was released and is part of the CS5 family but not part of the Master Collection. Those that already knew that, your extra credit has been recorded.
RSS Feed Link:
feed://blogs.adobe.com/csupdates/feed/
Atom Feed Link:
feed://blogs.adobe.com/csupdates/feed/atom/
Jody Rodgers
Product Manager, Enterprise & Volume Customers
Creative Suite
The following post comes from the CS Live team. CS Live is a set of online services that harness the connectivity of the web and integrate with Adobe Creative Suite 5 software to simplify the creative review process, speed up website compatibility testing, and more.
Hello IT Professionals!
We are doing a major study at Adobe for our enterprise and education licensing customers, and we’d love to talk to you. In particular, we’d like to share with you some new ways to manage and deploy Adobe CS Live http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/cslive/ hosted services. We are only looking for 1 hour of your time, anytime from mid August to mid September. The study will involve looking at some mockups and/or workflows and will be done over Adobe® Connect™. All selected participants (or participant teams) will receive a $100 Visa gift certificate for your time.
Your participation will help us shape and improve our product development efforts at Adobe and will help direct millions of dollars in funding. If that sounds interesting, please contact Hawro Mustafa, hmustafa@adobe.com, on or before August 30th to sign up. Please put “Adobe CS Live Enterprise and Education study” in the subject line and fill out the information below in the body of the email.
Name:
Title:
Size of Organization:
Name and quantity of Adobe products that you normally deploy:
Type of purchase contract with Adobe (e.g. TLP, CLP):
Any hosted services currently used by your organization:
Best time for you to participate in this study:
Additional Information and/or alternate contact information:
Thank you for your time,
Adobe CS Live Team