Automating installation of CCP packages for Windows

I have updated my script to suppress the EULA and registration for MUSE, Lightroom and Acrobat. This requires the Adobe Provisioning Toolkit, which you must download and install separately. (Why isn't it included in the package? Why?) You need to edit the script to change the path to adobe_prtk.exe. I am using a relative path, but you might find an absolute path easier to maintain. While you debug this, you may want to add a "pause" line at the end of the script so you'll have time to read the output.

This script seems to be a moving target as Adobe keeps changing the installation. I might find some other place to publish this, but I'll let you know.

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echo off

REM The first CLS will clear the error about UNC paths

cls

REM Adobe Creative Cloud installer

REM (c) Petri Riihikallio 20.10.2014 v.2.0

REM You may use this as you like as long as I am credited for my work.

REM This file must be run as administrator in the topmost directory created

REM by CCP with Build and Exceptions as subdirectories.

REM You need to set Acrobat installation language and the location of the

REM Adobe Provisioning Toolkit. I am using a relative path for the PrTk,

REM so it needs to be relative to "Exceptions" folder. You can use an

REM absolute path like K:\tools\adobe_prtk.exe

set Lang=en_US

set PrTK=..\..\adobe_prtk.exe

REM This pushd trick will allow running this script from an UNC path

pushd %~dp0

set Step=1

if not exist Exceptions goto ErrMsg

cd Exceptions

set Step=2

if not exist ExceptionDeployer.exe goto ErrMsg

ExceptionDeployer --workflow=install --mode=pre --installLanguage=%Lang%

set Step=3

cd ..

if not exist Build goto ErrMsg

cd Build

set Step=4

if not exist setup.exe goto ErrMsg

setup.exe /sPB /l /sl %Lang%

cd ..\Exceptions

echo Exceptions Post-pass

ExceptionDeployer --workflow=install --mode=post

REM Still in the Exceptions folder, we need to check which apps were

REM included and suppress registration and eula

if not exist *MUSE* goto Lightroom

%PrTk% --tool=EULA --leid=V7{}Muse-80-Win-GM --eulasuppress

%PrTk% --tool=Register --leid=V7{}Muse-80-Win-GM --regsuppress=ss

:Lightroom

if not exist *LTRM* goto Acrobat

%PrTk% --tool=EULA --leid=V7{}Lightroom-55-Win-GM --eulasuppress

%PrTk% --tool=Register --leid=V7{}Lightroom-55-Win-GM --regsuppress=ss

:Acrobat

if not exist *Acrobat* goto CleanUp

%PrTk% --tool=EULA --leid=V6{}AcrobatPro-AS2-Win-GM --eulasuppress

%PrTk% --tool=Register --leid=V6{}AcrobatPro-AS2-Win-GM --regsuppress=ss

goto CleanUp

:ErrMsg

echo Got lost at step %Step% :o/ Is this BAT file in the correct directory?

:CleanUp

popd

pause

Oh, I should have documented that we are installing on fresh machines only. We are running a training facility and the lab computers are wiped clean regularly and installed anew. That's why there won't ever be any old versions to remove.

Thanks for this, it did give me some smooth installation of Photoshop. However, are you using this on a single package? I've been trying to script a silent install of Photoshop and Acobat XI for weeks now however whenenver I try to make the silent install of Acrobat, it fails every time. However the rest of the script for any other Adobe product works well.

Thanks for this post.