Photoshop CS3 Extended – Silent Deploy

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Jacob_Pitcher
May 4, 2007
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Hello All,

I’m having difficulty installing Photoshop CS3 silently. I’ve made a copy of the "Adobe CS3" directory on the DVD media to a network share (its contents being Setup.exe, as well as several other files and the payloads, redist, and resources directories).

As per the instructions in cs3_deployment.pdf I’ve created a file with the name "application.xml.override" within the payloads\AdobePhotoshop10en_US_volume directory. The contents of this file are as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Configuration>
<Payload>
<Data key="Serial" protected="0">SERIALNUMBERHERE</Data> <Data key="Registration">Suppress</Data> <Data key="EULA">Suppress</Data>
<Data key="Updates">Suppress</Data> </Payload>
</Configuration>

After creating the file, I ran setup.exe with the –mode=Silent command line parameter after which I received the following message at the command prompt:

"UI mode: Silent"

After Setup.exe and msiexec.exe appeared in the task manager for a moment I received an error message at the command prompt as follows:

"End Adobe Setup. Exit code: 7"

According to cs3_deployment.pdf this error code corresponds to the following message:

"Unable to complete the silent workflow"

I am at a loss as to what to do. I typed the file out manually with normal quotes so as not to experience the issue of typographer’s quotes being used instead of normal quotes.

According to the log file located in c:\program files\common files\adobe\installers, the following error was experienced:

"Deployment file does not exist: C:\program"

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Jacob_Pitcher
May 7, 2007
I figured out what my problem was. –deploymentFile is a mandatory switch and even if using the default deployment file. I did discover that the installer is not capable of handling a path with a space in it when supplying the full path to the deployment file (even if quotes are used). This is not noted in the deployment documentation.

It is also rather unfortunate that the install is completely silent (also was with CS2). It would be helpful if the "quiet reduced" form of the internal MSI files was available when deploying this software to the user as there is no way to tell the user how long the install will take or at what point the install is at.

Jacob
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dave_milbut
May 7, 2007
"Deployment file does not exist: C:\program"

put quotes around the path to enable the installer to see them (this is windows behaviour not adobe, btw). also make sure the capitalization is correct (must be exact if you put quotes around the path name!)
JP
Jacob_Pitcher
May 7, 2007
As I stated in my previous post I did in fact use quotes when I specified the path to the deployment file. Please explain why capitalization is required when using quotes. This is quite interesting to me as this is most definitely _not_ default windows behavior.
JP
Jacob_Pitcher
May 7, 2007
DM
dave_milbut
May 7, 2007
Please explain why capitalization is required when using quotes.

because when you use quotes you’re telling windows this is EXACTLY the name, don’t use any other.
JP
Jacob_Pitcher
May 7, 2007
What you mean to say is that you’re telling the INSTALLER this, not windows. Windows is not case sensitive.
DM
dave_milbut
May 7, 2007
ok, it used to be then. did you try it?
JP
Jacob_Pitcher
May 7, 2007
Did you even read my message? I told you that I solved the problem myself! It was the fact that I didn’t use –deploymentFile in the first place that it did not work!
DM
dave_milbut
May 7, 2007
ok then. glad to help.
AL
Alain_Lavoie
Jun 13, 2007
I got the same problem Jacob had but now the silent instalion run well but the file application.xml.override does not work for me,

In wath folder do you put that file and do we have to rename the file from application.xml.override to application.xml for the file to work properly.

Thanks !
LP
Linda_Pshebnisky
Jun 26, 2007
CS3 is installing silent for myself using the following command and putting the application.xml.override file in the deployment directory. I use Empirum and this is in my setup.inf file

Call "%SRC%\Adobe CS3\setup.exe" –mode=Silent –deploymentFile="%SRC%\Adobe CS3\install.xml"
Call MsiExec /P "%SRC%\updates\AcrobatUpd810_efgj_incr.msp" /qb-! /L "%Temp%\MSI_%ProductName%.%Version%.%Revision%.log"

The problem that I am having now is that I had to put a patch string to update Acrobat to 8.01 because 8.0 has problems with Outlook 2000 meeting acceptances. 8.01 fixes this and installs ok but, unfortunately, 8.01 asks you to download an elicense. I don’t know how to make this silent.
LP
Linda_Pshebnisky
Jun 26, 2007
Actually, it looks like the application.xml.override made the elicense silent also. Problem resolved.
LR
Luis_Rodriguez
Aug 23, 2007
‘I did discover that the installer is not capable of handling a path with a space in it when supplying the full path to the deployment file (even if quotes are used). This is not noted in the deployment documentation.’

Sorry to ask a dumb question, but how did you get around this?
MD
Michael_D_Sullivan
Aug 23, 2007
Take your pick:

1. You get around it by putting the deployment file in a directory without spaces in the path.

2. You use the alternative 8.3 file and directory names, as in: C:\DOCUME~1\USERNA~1\MYDOCU~1\ etc. To get these use dir /x at the cmd prompt.
TR
tomallen.remote
Oct 10, 2007
On Aug 24, 5:19 am, wrote:
Take your pick:

1. You get around it by putting thedeploymentfile in a directory without spaces in the path.
2. You use the alternative 8.3 file and directory names, as in: C:\DOCUME~1\USERNA~1\MYDOCU~1\ etc. To get these use dir /x at the cmd prompt.

Found this handy page giving guidelines and examples for installing Adobe Photoshop CS3:

http://www.deploymentpro.com/applications/display/Adobe/Phot oshop/CS3

Try their method first, then if that works you can tweak it for your own specific requirements.
DS
Desmarais_Sylvie
Dec 7, 2007
Hi !
I also made a silent installation, is starting and everything is going fine… but then it stops and "End Adobe Setup. Exit code: 6" silent workflow completed with errors..

I resolve it by renaming my directories with no spaces
«\\Sv_sag\sag\Applications\AdobeDreamweaverCS3\AdobeCS3» and modify the «setup.xml» in "\payloads" directory by removing the space between «Adobe» and «CS3» in all the file.
Q
Quazl
Jan 3, 2008
I am getting the Exit code of 7 and in the log is states this:

Exiting from installation due to blocking error.

I can’t find anything on the web that deals with this error.
GG
Geoff_Goehler
Apr 30, 2008
I am trying to silently install Adobe CS3 Design Suite Premium silently without Adobe Acrobat (but everything else). I have created my Install.xml and Remove.xml with the –record=1 command and all seems OK with those files. I also created the application.xlm.override file OK. I can open all 3 in IE without XML errors.

I am using the following install command line from Start>Run: C:\AdobeCS3\Setup.exe –mode=Silent -–deploymentFile=C:\AdobeCS3\install.xml

Setup runs silently for about a minute or two. I can watch the folders being created for all of the payloads in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers folder when it is running for those 2 minutes, then they dissapear.

Looking at the compressed log file, it shows the successfull unpacking of all payloads in the Common Files location then the final lines of the log read:
Property(S): INSTALLLEVEL = 1
=== Logging stopped: 4/30/2008 14:20:14 ===
[ 3288] Wed Apr 30 14:20:15 2008 INFO
Checking bootstrapper progress
Ran uninstall for the bootstrapper due to an exception
[ 3288] Wed Apr 30 14:20:15 2008 FATAL
Exception: Payload deployment data is invalid or missing Exit code: 7
[ 3288] Wed Apr 30 14:20:15 2008 INFO
———————————————————— —– —————— END Silent Installer Session —————– ———————————————————— —–

What would make the deployment data invalid or missing?!? I see it in windows explorer and it is recorced in the log lines above??
J2
jben_2
Aug 20, 2008
Take a look here, this website is great for packaging and most answers should be here: <http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=1038>
Click on the Notes section and read all the entries

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