Silent install of Acrobat Pro X?

[Steve_Maser]

Is there a way to embed the serial number in an installation of *Mac* Acrobat Pro X?

It's possible to do this with the Windows installer if you put the serial number in the "abcpy.ini" file.

But I've not found a way to do something similar with the Mac installer.    Is there a way?

Thanks!

[Guest]

Hi ,

There is a provisioning tool available in MAC but depends exactly on what is your use case. Why exactly do you need this option?

[Steve_Maser]

>Hi ,

>

>There is a provisioning tool available in MAC but depends exactly on

>what is your use case. Why exactly do you need this option?

We've licensed a number of concurrent copies of Acrobat Pro X, so I

need to distribute them. While I can install the software using

Apple Remote Desktop from the .pkg file, I would then need to

manually enter the serial number otherwise.

So, that's my "use case". Either I need to know how to distribute

the serial number via ARD after the install, or how do I otherwise

get access to this provisioning tool?

Thanks!

[Sakshi_S]

Hi Steve,

Sounds like the provisioning tool will suit your needs. It will help you serialize Acrobat installations using ARD.

The tool should be available shortly.

regards,

Sakshi

[Steve_Maser]

>Hi Steve,

>Sounds like the provisioning tool will suit your needs. It will help you serialize Acrobat installations using ARD.

>The tool should be available shortly.

By "shortly" -- how long?

And where will I be able to find this tool when it becomes available?

Thanks!

- Steve

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[Steve_Maser]

As a followup...

If I were to now push install the Acrobat X Pro installer via ARD.

Is there some specific file I can subsequently push that is located

on a machine I've already installed/serialized Acrobat X Pro that

contains the serial number?

(I'm looking to do this sooner than later...)

Thanks again!

- Steve

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[Guest]

No. The license cannot be copied.

[Steve_Maser]

>No. The license cannot be copied.

What about just blasting out the "Adobe PCD" folder prior to pushing the .pkg installer?

I've tried that here and it seemed to work.

Is there anything wrong with that method?

- Steve

[lexicon5]

So the new Application Manager Enterprise Edition cannot use the Adobe Acrobat X download from Adobe to create a serialized package to push to our enterprise users? Kinda makes ya wonder if the various groups within Adobe actually know the others exist? Do they eat lunch together? Are they on different floors in the same building? Separate buildings? Different countries? Speak the same languages?

The latest Provisioning Tool makes no provision(pardon the pun) for Acrobat...I find no LEID info.

I'm going to try JAMF Composer and see if it can package this for us. I'll let ya know.

One day...and I'll probably be dust by then....Adobe will gather all the teams together and they will strive to create an enterprise toolkit that functions the way we need it to...probably around CS14 or CS15 I'm guessing. Probably be called Apple Creative Suite though...

[Sakshi_S]

Please refer to http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/837/cpsid_83709.html for details.It provides access to the Provisioning Tool and the Enterprise Administration Guide. In the guide, the Mac Deployments section has a sub-section on ARD based deployments using the tool.

regards,

Sakshi