CS6 Indesign on App-V 5 using Xenapp 6.5 provisioned servers.

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September 10, 2013
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Hi

We are trying to deploy Indesign CS6 using App-V 5 on provisioned Xenapp 6.5 servers. I have tried different solutions without any luck.

Making an install packet using AAMEE 3.1. Sequencing packet in App-V. According to the AAMEE manual this would remove the “machine dependency” in the packet and serializing it.
Using this solution we are able to start Indesign once on every server. The next time we try to start it crashes. We can see it starts up adobe_licutil.exe just before chashing.

We have also tried using adobe_prtk.exe to serialize the installation using prov.xml without any luck.

Can anyone point us in the right direction? AAMEE or Trial with adobe_prtk.exe, a combination or something else?

Best regards
Morten

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Romsinha-9KMEUt

Adobe Employee

Hi msn9000aa,

We have conducted limited testing of some products in virtualized or server-based environments. Please find the Adobe general virtualization document for support boundaries: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/technical-support-boundaries-virtualized-or.html.

Regards,

Romit Sinha

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Anonymous

Hi Romit

Thanks for your reply.

I know this is kind of unsupported but we have been running CS2 and CS4 in our Citrix environment for over a decade and are not looking for a good old client installation.

The document you are referring to does mention Known Issues regarding to our issue. But there is no date in the document and it says AAMEE version 3.x.

One of the changes from version 3.0 til 3.1 is addressing this issue though.

This explains the AAMEE 3.0 way: http://blogs.adobe.com/oobe/2012/06/imaging-cs6-attack-of-the-clones.html pay attention to the update in the top, witch is the AAMEE 3.1 way: http://blogs.adobe.com/oobe/2012/09/aamee-3-1or-why-puffer-fish-is-a-delicacy.html

Reading this I can conclude there was introduced some "features" in CS6 making it harder to distribute unlicensed. Also making it harder to install and use for the enterprises who pay a lot of bucks for the applications...

As i stated in my first post we have tried at lot of solution and are looking for some directions. The AAMEE way or the prov.xlv way or maybe a script to register the installation every time the servers reboot.

Best regards

Morten

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Anonymous

Who is marking answer 3. as correct all the time? It is NOT correct!

Pay attention to answer 4. please

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a_weaver

Participant

I am also in the same situation, trying to create a package for App-V 5.0 without any luck, if anything, i get stuck trying to serialize the package, getting return code 25. any help will be greatly appreciated