Deploying After Effects for network rendering without activation--render-only--can't deploy

Report · Mar 17, 2015

I am currently trying to install After Effects render engines to our render farm. However, even after following all the steps in your article (thanks for that by the way) it doesn't seem to work. We have Creative Cloud for Teams which is where I got the CCP. I've created the package and deployed the msi through GPO to specific machines. The only thing that I can see that may cause this problem is that I don't have Creative Cloud installed on any of the machines I want After Effects on. Could you help me figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I have also added the blank text file as instructed under the user profile on each machine (they are the same user profile). When I made the package where the source destination has to go I put it under that user profile. It did give a warning that if this source is not available over the network then it may not work, so do I have to put the source on my network for each computer to have access to it? And if so, where does the blank text file come into play?

When I try to run the MSI by itself it acts like it is going to install but then the progress bar goes backwards and just exits out. No errors, no warnings, and nothing to indicate what went wrong.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Report · Mar 17, 2015

Hi Eric,

This seems 1603 error while installing the package. You can check the PDApp.log from %temp% location to identify the other errors. Creative cloud desktop app should be inside the package which is mandatory for creative cloud team users. there is no way to disable the creative cloud desktop app from packager when you create a package with team account.

Please make sure you install the package on a 64 bit machine only and try restarting win installer service. Moreover you can go through the PDApp log.

Thanks,

Ashish