Creative Suite 5.5 deployment using Symantec Ghost

[Guest]

Has anybody used Ghost or a similar system imaging tool to deploy a system with Creative Suite 5.5 installed?

As part of my organization's imaging process, we install and configure software in Windows 7's audit mode; run sysprep; and capture that image for deployment.

Are there any issues using a volume-licensed software in this scenario? Do new user profiles have to accept a EULA or do any other configuration.

[Jeffrey_A_Wright]

BirchBarlow I would recommend reviewing the deployment guides located at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/enterprisedeployment.html.  I have seen Norton Ghost used successfully but that was with a volume license and and older version of the Creative Suite.  You will most certainly need a volume license due to the activation technology included with Creative Suite 5.5.

[Guest]

Thanks Jeff.

I've looked at the documentation at that link, and it all seems geared toward using Adobe Application Manager to deploy installation and update packages.

I'm still interested in hearing user experiences with deploying Creative Suite 5.5 as part of a system image. My main goal is to be able to configure the software package once in Audit Mode of Windows 7's sysprep and have all of those settings be taken when new Windows user profiles are created. I want to avoid any sort of registration or configuration screens when a new user logs in to a PC and starts using a Creative Suite product.

[Jeffrey_A_Wright]

Understandable BirchBarlow.  I think the largest issue you will run into is the activation technology as it is tied to a specific computer configuration.

[Guest]

Can you provide more information about how the activation process works on volume-licensed installations?

[Jeffrey_A_Wright]

Not really as it would make the defeating of the technology easier.  This is also why we primarily recommend deploying the software to each system as opposed to already having it imaged on the computer.

I will be curious as well to see if other users have had success with an imaged drive.