AAMEE MSI error 1603 on silent install

[Guest]

Hello,

I have been trying to silently install Adobe CS6 Design Standard, and haven't been able to.

I have used AAMEE to create the MSI package to deploy, but even running it as administrator on console won't do that trick. (The package is a trial, so I can later serialize them at will)

The Weird behavior:

1- The loading Window opens and loads till the end.

2- It starts loading again till half way.

3- Rolls back and leaves me wondering.

I have checked the logs on %temp% and have found that a Custom Action is actually returning the error code: 1603 (fatal, which is making it close and rollback).

here is the piece of the log:

CustomAction CADeploy returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)
MSI (s) (98:D8) [15:30:49:333]: Closing MSIHANDLE (6664) of type 790536 for thread 1256
Action ended 15:30:49: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.

Things I have tried:

- I've tried installing on windows 8.1 ONLY, but did try it in different machines and never got it to actually work past that point.

- Have also tried Installing using the package files used to create the MSI and they DO WORK. Although they render me useless, since I can not deploy them silently.

- Have tried playing with the files and cleaning up cached data and re trying everything with no success. so I'm at a dead end.

I've read a whole lot of articles on ITNinja, adobe forums, 3rd party party forums, google and have not been able to find a solution...

I'd appreciate some help if anyone could spare!

Thanks in advance!

Woliveira

[Guest]

Edit:

During the time I was running the Install command: MsiExec /i cs6.msi /qn

I've noticed that the windows installer task would start 3 tasks, but then it would close 2 of them and keep running one that did nothing but install Adobe Aplication Manager.

Knowing that something was messing up, I decided to start fresh. I redownloaded the AAMEE tool, re-donwloaded the image and tested the command again (MsiExec /i cs6.msi /qn).

Soon I noticed there was another background process along with the 3 Windows Installer processes, that was named Adobe Installer. After a while it installed successfully without any problem.

I had lost hope on this issue after 5 days... had re-done the package multiple times but never actually re aquired a new version of the AAMEE, maybe something was wrong ? or maybe was the image...

I'm not entirelly sure but at this point the issue seems solved and I'll report back if there is any other problem.

[alisterblack · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The first thing I would suggest is to stop using AAMEE - this has been superseded by the Creative Cloud Packager. You can still use CCP to package CS6, just choose 'archived versions' in the product list.

[Guest]

Hi Alister,

I'll check that out!

Thanks for the heads up!