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June 14, 2012
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How best to serialize mac or windows client after image restore?

  • June 14, 2012
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What is the most reliable way to get the Serialization and/or prov.xml file to kick in after I've imaged, deployed, and rebooted a system?

Gratefully,

SL

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saranshkatariya
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
June 16, 2012

Hi,

Once you have deployed the trial version on the machines through imaging, you should use the serialization executable to serialize your CS6 products. Just run the serialization executable workflow of AAMEE and its output will be a folder containing AdobeSerialization.exe and a prov.xml file. You should copy this to all the systems where the trial is installed and then run this executable via command line -

AdobeSerialization --tool=VolumeSerialize --provfile=Absolute_Path_of_prov.xml

where

--tool=VolumeSerialize specifies that the tool needs to process the prov.xml file to serialize.

--provfile specifies the absolute file path to the prov.xml file,

By default, the tool looks for the prov.xml file in the same directory as the executable file and so typically you do not need to specify this option. (Specify this option only if the prov.xml file is in some

other location.)

This will serialize your CS6 products.For more information, please refer to page 40 of  AAMEE documentation posted athttp://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/enterprisedeployment.html

if you face any issues, you can also mail me at skatariy@adobe.com

Thanks,

Saransh Katariya | Member of Technical staff | Adobe Systems

Participating Frequently
June 16, 2012

Is there a way to have this be triggered automatically when a machine boots the first time after its been restored from the image I create for it?

Adobe Employee
June 20, 2012

Hi, to serialize you need to run serialization executable, which should be run as commandline. this tool should run with elevated priviledges. There is no constraint in running this executable during system startup.

thanks,

Rahul