Deploying After Effects for network rendering without activation--render-only--can't deploy

I am currently trying to install After Effects render engines to our render farm. However, even after following all the steps in your article (thanks for that by the way) it doesn't seem to work. We have Creative Cloud for Teams which is where I got the CCP. I've created the package and deployed the msi through GPO to specific machines. The only thing that I can see that may cause this problem is that I don't have Creative Cloud installed on any of the machines I want After Effects on. Could you help me figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I have also added the blank text file as instructed under the user profile on each machine (they are the same user profile). When I made the package where the source destination has to go I put it under that user profile. It did give a warning that if this source is not available over the network then it may not work, so do I have to put the source on my network for each computer to have access to it? And if so, where does the blank text file come into play?

When I try to run the MSI by itself it acts like it is going to install but then the progress bar goes backwards and just exits out. No errors, no warnings, and nothing to indicate what went wrong.

Thanks for any help you can give me.