Adobe Installation and Licensing

In the past, some of our enterprise customers had expressed the need and desire for an easy way for them to host Adobe updates internally and let their client machines point to the in-house update server rather than Adobe Update server. With the release of Adobe Updater Server Setup Tool (AUSST), you would be able to setup and manage your own update server.

Adobe Updater Server Setup Tool is a platform specific command line tool, which can be run on Windows and Macintosh to help sync updates from Adobe Update server. You can use any HTTP server (such as Apache) to host these updates. Using AUSST, you can:

1) Sync updates from Adobe update server to a clean machine.
2) Update the already download updates using incremental download.
3) Migrate from one in-house update server to another in-house update server.
4) Generate AdobeUpdater.Overrides, to allow client machines running Adobe Application Manager point to new in-house update server.

After you have setup the in-house Update server, you can re-direct your Adobe Application manager running on client machines point to this new in-house update server. For this, you would need to place AdobeUpdater.Overrides at following platform specific location on the client machines in your network

• In Windows XP – \Documents and Settings\All Users\ApplicationData\Adobe\AAMUpdater\1.0\AdobeUpdater.Overrides
• In Windows 7/Vista – \ProgramData\Adobe\AAMUpdater\1.0\AdobeUpdater.Overrides
• In Mac OS X – /Library/Application Support/Adobe/AAMUpdater/1.0/AdobeUpdater.Overrides

There is also an option provided in Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition (AAMEE) 1.1 to help you configure your client machines for this redirection, which will place AdobeUpdater.Overrides in the above platform specific locations on your client machines.

You can download the Mac and Windows versions along with the documentation here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/enterprisedeployment.html

-Manju Bansal, Ravi Prakash Singh
Adobe Updater Team

Enterprise in-house update server setup using Adobe Update Server Setup Tool

I am happy to announce the release of the much anticipated Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition (AAMEE) 1.1. This release has the ability to turn our CS updates that come down from Adobe.com in the format of .zip files on Windows and .dmg files on Macs into MSI and PKG files for easy deployment. You can do this singularly or better yet combine them into a big bundle of updates into one MSI or PKG. Want to deploy your CS5 applications and our updates at the same time? AAMEE 1.1 can do that too. Create your own “über-package” of CS applications with their updates and deploy them at the same time with one MSI or PKG. Cool, right?

And if that weren’t enough, we have released two new deployment tools for IT admins: Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition (APTEE) and Adobe Update Server Setup Tool (AUSST.) Yes, we are continuing our 5 letter acronym spree! Put the three tools names together and you almost have enough letters to play Boggle™. Both new tools are command line based and I believe you’ll find them quite helpful. The Adobe Provisioning Toolkit Enterprise Edition (APTEE) tool allows you to serialize, unserialize or reserialize installed CS applications. The Adobe Update Server Setup Tool (AUSST) allows you to configure a server on your network to become the local location for acquiring CS updates.

We’ll have blog postings that dig further into each of these tools coming soon but I wanted to let you know right away about the three tools so you can download them and their documentation.

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

NOTE: The Adobe Developer Connection website and new tools on them may be unavailable for a brief time in the near future for a site-based update. So…get ‘em quick! Don’t worry, they will return once the revamped site goes online. The tools should be available on LWS as well.

9/13/10 6:43 PM PST UPDATE: The new Adobe Developer Connection website is up and the new tools are once again available. Sorry for anyone who was inconvenienced during the down time.

Jody Rodgers
Product Manager, Enterprise & Volume Customers
Creative Suite