Or is it still as moronic as:
yea, that’s the way to get help on something that only one of the adobe developers might know this far before the release date.
Are Photoshop users getting more intelligent? Or are they still as moronic as to ask questions like:
Has the setup routine for PS been improved? Does it use MSI yet? Or is it still as moronic as…
When taking a shot across the bows of the good ship Adobe, it’s as well not to aim at one’s own foot!
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Has the setup routine for PS been improved? Does it use MSI yet? Or is it still as moronic as:
"If you need to perform a large-scale deployment of Adobe Creative Suite over a network, place the installer on a server and instruct users to start the installer directly from the server." ?
If you have need of a volume license purchase, check out
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/openoptions/main.html The standalone installer does use MSI.
–marc
Quoting Dave Milbut:
"yea, that’s the way to get help on something that only one of the adobe developers might know this far before the release date."
This far before the release date??? I have my copy already…. am I the only one?
Sorry – But I’m incredibly frustrated with the awful setup routine in the previous/current variants of Photoshop. And the suggestion that one should just freely distribute the setup files and give up admin rights to everyone _is_ moronic.
I’m glad to here that it uses MSI – but is it deployable via group policies? Acrobat 6 had an MSI – but it was deliberately nobbled so you couldn’t use group policies…
Dave
So why do so many (other) institutions have little or no problem distributing copies of CS?
I have no idea – I don’t work for them. Are you one of them? If there’s anyone else here who can explain how to automate a mass-deploy Photoshop to 50+ machines, who’s users don’t have admin rights then _please_ tell me. As I said, I _want_ to use photoshop.
Dave
Chris is one of the Photoshop engineers.
Users must have at least power user rights to run Photoshop at all.
And I don’t do too many mass-deployments, but I haven’t heard any serious problems (other than ridiculously low user account sizes and a few file permissions problems) from people who do.
don’t know if these still apply for cs2, but here’s a faq on required permissions for cs and 7… should still hold true:
"Required permissions for Photoshop (7.0.x and CS on Windows)" #1, 5 Jun 2004 1:31 pm </cgi-bin/webx?13/0>
Thanks – but it’s not the permissions that are the issue – they can be tweaked and set at logon time.
It’s the installation that’s the problem. Can the MSI be deployed by group policies?
I usually wipe my lab PC’s every week to keep the crud off them (all user files are on redirected folders on the network). RIS installs the OS and Group Policies install all the software – it’s totally automatic and saves my hundreds of hours a year. Corel Draw currently supports GP deployement out of the box.
I can’t find _anything_ on the Adobe website about CS deployment(other than basic ‘install CD, click setup.exe’ stuff). How do Adobe recommend deployment enmass? Corel have a Network Administrators Guide for people like me. Where is Adobe’s equivalent?
My users want me to deploy photoshop. I’d like to. But if it’s installer is as ‘legacy’ as in PS7 and below, then I’ll have to stick to Corel.
Dave
Dave: Macromedia can do it, so I guess you’ll just have to wait.
I work in an office with around 100 Macs and the way IT does it there is with a system image of everything. OSX, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign the whole shebang at once. If you are going to wipe all systems once a week, why not just set up one system with everything just how you like it and image all the others with the setup on the first one?
Heck, it is so simple that if anyone has a problem that they cant fix in the first 15 minutes, they just re-image and go about their merry way as it is.
Because hardware differences mean that one image will not necessarily work on the other machines. RIS and GPO software deployment is more flexible because I can also install software when and where they like – asumming they are built to MS specifications, that is.
Someone said ‘Dreamweaver can do it, so you’ll have to wait’ – does this mean that CS2 _doesn’t_ support GPO deployement?
I can’t find any documentation on the Adobe website, or any details on how to actually contact Adobe and ask them.
Dave
