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Simon_Joh4nsson
Participating Frequently
March 27, 2014
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How to rollout updates to multiple clients simultaneously

  • March 27, 2014
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Hi there,

the amount of maintenance updates showing up in Creative Cloud is staggering.

Having to continuously go to each of our clients to perform updates feels less and less efficient.

Is there a command-line tool to trigger the update process so I can use Apple Remote Desktop to trigger the updates from a single location?

Is there any other way to get the installers and push them out via Apple Remote Desktop?

If not, can you please add a Feature Reguest for above.

Also it would be very nice to have a Createive Cloud.app preference option to Download updates in background (preferrably during night time) so that WHEN you do the update you don't have to wait for the downloads.

Also it feels like there is an opportunity in sharing/caching the downloaded updates with other Creative Cloud clients on the network so we don't need to download thousands of MB's everytime you release an update.

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Abhijit_Kr_
Adobe Employee
March 27, 2014

Hi Simon Joh4nsson,

I would like to suggest Adobe Update Server Setup Tool (AUSST) for this purpose, so you can create an Internal Update server where you can cache all the Adobe updates and deploy it on your convenience and save the Data charge.

Also to invoke Updates from ARD you can use Remote Update Manager(RUM) to all the client machines at once.

You can refer to this Documentation for AUSST setup

http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/packager/update-server-setup-tool.html

You can also View a Video Documentation for AUSST and RUM.

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/creative-suite-in-the-enterprise/set-up-an-internal-adobe-update-server-by-using-ausst/

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Abhijit

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Simon_Joh4nssonAuthor
Participating Frequently
March 28, 2014

Hi Abhijit,

thanks for that, I just read up on it. It looks like it solves one thing (download speed) but adds one more steps to my update procedure that I don't have today.

• Right now I:

1. Go to each machine.

2. Authenticate.

3. Wait for updates to download

4. Wait for updates to install.

• With the Adobe Update Server Setup Tool (AUSST) my workflow will be:

1. Update the AUSST to make sure all the latest updates are available. NEW

2. Go to each machine.

3. Authenticate.

4. Wait (less) for updates to download. FASTER.

5. Wait for updates to install.

So using the might make the installation time a bit shorter due to less downloaded updates from WAN but it does not really seem to solve me being able to trigger the client to update via a script.

Have I got that right?

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