For silent deployment on Windows 7: I've noticed that silently deploying CS3 causes the installation to fail because it doesn't pass the OS check. To make this work, the OS check has to be r… Read More

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium (Adobe CS3) Below is what i did, to make it install or uninstall. 1) The directory structure and name of the original CD or DVD is important. ( I cop… Read More

I created a whole batch file that works well... @ECHO OFF ECHO 1. Adobe Acrobat Professional CS3 ONLY ECHO 2. Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Full Suite ECHO 3. Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 ONLY ECHO 4. Ado… Read More

Adobe has a decent gudie to getting the silent installation up and running now that they've noted their typos and errors: www.adobe.com/go/kb400588 To summerize the process... 1. Copy the "Ado… Read More

Adobe has a decent gudie to getting the silent installation up and running now that they've noted their typos and errors: www.adobe.com/go/kb400588 To summerize the process... 1. Copy the "Ado… Read More

Another quick useful note: patches are installed as... patchname.exe -Silent Read More

Be careful on these points: - in command line use "deploymentFile" not "deploymentfile", - the file application.xml.override have no extension. - if you want to know the exit code without ex… Read More

Adobe has a pdf explaining deployment for Enterprise Deployment but has a few mistakes which are explained here. If copying and pasting from the pdf to your xml files, you must replace their do… Read More

Application.xml.override: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Configuration> <Payload> <Data key="Serial" protected="0">XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</Data> <Data key="Registration">Suppress</Da… Read More

In order to perform a silent install: <Path to Setup.exe>Setup.exe --mode=Silent --deploymentFile=<Path to install.xml>install.xml Also just note that if the path has spaces, you have to encl… Read More