PS CS & Windows Enterprise Server 2003

JL
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J_Lowthion
Aug 16, 2004
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Hi,

Has anyone had any success installing CS on Windows Enterprise Server 2003 (32 bit not 64)? its not listed on the system requirements so I’m hoping the basic framework is similar to W2K.

Due to corporate imposed restrictions I have to use 2003 Servers and remote in to work on them (not ideal I know). Before I recommend buying a load of licences I would like to hear of any success or failure others have had using a similar setup. I’m guessing that as its not on the system requirements I’ll get the expected, and understandable, "its not supported" from Adobe so I’m going to have to get my stetson and lasso for my cowboy impression, hopefully get some feedback from you guys, nail it all together and hope for the best.

Thanks
Joel
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dave_milbut
Aug 16, 2004
I have to use 2003 Servers and remote in to work on them

are you talking about running on the servers then running photoshop via something like cirtix? i don’t think that’s supported and i don’t think it’ll work due to the way ps interacts with the (local) OS. I could be wrong though. wait to hear back if any one’s tried it…
JL
J_Lowthion
Aug 16, 2004
The servers which are located in the US will have photoshop on them, from my location in the UK (overly complex setup but there are reasons) I will have to remotely connect via RDP and Terminal Services. There isn’t usually any issue with running a majority of programs in this way as they just see it as running locally, the only problem will be if there is a conflict between the 2003 server OS and PS CS itself.

Thanks
L
LenHewitt
Aug 16, 2004
J_L,

That is definitely NOT supported and very unlikely to work. Photoshop MUST be installed on the local machine.

Apart from any other consideration, Photoshop often creates huge scratch files (gigs not megs) and the network traffic generated would be truly horrendous.
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BCC
Aug 16, 2004
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J_L,

That is definitely NOT supported and very unlikely to work. Photoshop MUST be installed on the local machine.

Apart from any other consideration, Photoshop often creates huge scratch files (gigs not megs) and the network traffic generated would be truly horrendous.

I have to disagree with you there. Depending on the type of remoting this could work really well. In my former company they had a very big server which ran special simuluation software to which people remoted if they wanted to run a simulation. This was the best way because we would only needed one licence of the simulation program and only one very big server (which was also very noise. Luckally because of the remote option it could be placed in the far back of our serverroom). Getting back to photoshop: offcourse Adobe won’t support this. The best thing you could do is to try it yourselves. Given the fact that you will have to buy a large number of licenses if it doen’t work, would one test-license do any harm?

Greets, BCC
JL
J_Lowthion
Aug 17, 2004
Thanks Len. I think I need to explain a little more in detail…..The idea behind using the remote connection would be so that only the GUI was transmitted over the network. The scratch files would remain on the server and wouldn’t be sent out as traffic. Essentially network traffic not being an issue as processing will all be kept local to the server with only the (minimal) transmission of 1280×1024 display information(allowing users with low laptop or workstation processing power to benefit from the servers power, obvious licensing issues apply with multiple users which we are aware of.)

We have been using PS 6, Visual Studio.net, Database apps and a host of other highly intensive applications in this way successfully using W2K Server but due to the necessary upgrade to 2003 Server we need to look at upgrading to PS CS. And hence my question as to whether CS works on Enterprise Server 2003. With Hindsight I overcomplicated the issue and should have just asked if CS works on 2003 but anticipated the "why would you want to" or "why don’t you format and load normal windows" questions, both of which out of my hands.

Thanks in advance.
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LenHewitt
Aug 17, 2004
J_L,

All I can tell you is it isn’t supported. Folks have posted here with problems that are running on Server 2003, although whether those problems were anything to do with that fact, I really don’t know.
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net_admyin
Aug 20, 2004
Guys:
I’m not familiar with Adobe products, I’m a network administrator and one of my users is having a issue using PS. I saw this post and I have a suggestion, why don’t you run you PS under 2003 using compatibility mode (of course, for W2K)?

Gux
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BobLevine
Aug 21, 2004
It’s not a matter of compatibility. It’s a matter of running it from anything other than a local harddrive.

Bob

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