CCT deployment best practices Question.

Report · May 17, 2013

Using the packager to deploy 50+ seats, would it be best practice to perform a team-wide uninstall of currently installed CS5.5 assets prior to package deployment? Or can these assets remain on end user systems? Please advise. Thanks!

Report · May 21, 2013

We're faced with that scenario more times than we like. Depending on who you ask, it's "We need to remove old versions to reduce unnecessary issues" on the IT side, and "Touch my CS5.5 and I will beat you" on the user side. LOL

Our position is to remove old versions, so we're testing the Adobe cleaner tool, hoping to be able to script removal of all previous versions. Of course the litmus test is to get CS4 installed on a test Mac for testing.

http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Man if there's anything this exercise has done is to remind us how much progress Jody/Karl have made in the last few years. Installing CS4 (pre-AAMEE days) is like having toothpicks shoved into your retina. It's sooo much better today.

Don

Report · May 23, 2013

Thanks Don. I will check out the cleaner tool. Thanks for the link, (and the toothpick/retina analogy)

Report · Aug 09, 2013

Has anyone had success with automating the removal of previous versions of Creative Suite? We're getting ready to deploy CC to a large number of machines and we'd like to remove previous versions without manually running the tool.

Thanks.