Adobe have a manual showing how to do this and it can be found at http://www.adobe.com/support/deployment/cs3_deployment.pdf. It does have a typo in it. I have noted it further down.

They also have a flash movie and it can be found here https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/ard

It actually seems to be pretty simple. These are the steps I took for a successful installation.

I copied the Photoshop DVD to a folder in my shared directory called CS3.

In the folder I made a xml file called, application.xml.override file. This contains your serial number.

Mine looks like this. You have to take the dashes out of the serial number.




serial number no dashes here
Suppress
Suppress
Suppress


All I then had to do was copy the CS3 folder I made to the client via ARD, and then send the following Unix command as root to the target machine.

"/Users/Shared/CS3/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Setup.app/Contents/MacOS/"Setup --mode=silent --deploymentFile="/Users/Shared/CS3/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Adobe Photoshop CS3/deployment.xml"

This is the line in the manual has wrong. It says --deploymentFiles and it should be --deploymentFile

After that, as long as all applications are closed Photoshop will install silently. I also have Illustrator working as well. It is basically the same steps as above, but where you see "Photoshop" in the Unix command replace with "Illustrator"

I am now trying to get all these steps into an Automator script. At the moment the individual parts work, but they time out, and so won't run one after the other.

Tags: Work, Computers, CS3, Apple Remote Desktop