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Offline installer for CC Desktop / Server availability issues.

  • August 23, 2013
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This is a follow up to the issue described here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5620240#5620240

As we have to install CC Desktop on each of the systems deploying CS6 packages, I'm looking for an offline installer for it. Is such a thing available?

The reasons I ask are that A) There's no guarantee that the machine will have internet access during the installation. and B) Half the time I run it on a desktop, I get an error message telling me "The remote server is not responding in a proper manner"; my response to which was similarly improper...

My "Deployment" such as it is now relies on users copying the file form a network share on to their desktops, running it individually and hoping that the server is online. Not fun when you've got 50 artists across 5 studios wanting to get these packages installe; and that's only so I can proceed to the wheel-of-fortune that is the AAMEE-produced MSI package.

Are these server availability issues commonplace? Is this just one of those things that afflicts all software launches that rely too heavily on online components?

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    Correct answer Romsinha-9KMEUt

    With all due respect, that's not a particularly useful mechanism for us. This is the "Enterprise Deployment Forum" and I was hoping for something a little more automatable. Manually uninstalling an application is no better than having to manually install CC Desktop in the first place.


    Hi Terry Dooher,

    Create a package selecting Muse and CC desktop will be packaged along with it. As we know that Muse is packaged in Exception folder and it will not get installed unless we try to install from exception. Run the setup from the Build folder to install CC desktop.

    Regards,

    Romit Sinha

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    Romsinha-9KMEUt
    Adobe Employee
    Romsinha-9KMEUt
    Adobe Employee
    August 26, 2013

    Hi Terry Dooher,

    Are you trying to install CS6 as a part of suite or subscription.

    Regards,

    Romit Sinha

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    sdfsdfadgasdgAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 27, 2013

    Hi Romit

    I'm installing CS6 as a package, authenticated using our new CC subscriptions; but it doesn't appear to matter how I deploy the main package itself, it's the Creative Cloud Desktop application, that I'm concerned about.  It appears to be necessary to install this before the CS6 applications can be activated correctly, but I have no way of automating this process.

    ProDesignTools
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    ProDesignToolsCommunity Expert
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    September 26, 2013

    Therein lies the main problem: I am _only_ deploying CS6 and I can _only_ use AAMEE to build these packages. (CC Packager only supports CC apps)

    It's good to know that the CC Desktop app is packaged with CC apps, but we're not going to be moving to CC version products until (at least) early in the new year.  Until then, I need to Deploy CC Desktop in a manageable way alongside my CS6 packages so that new staff can activate their CS6 licenses. The post I referenced at the top will go into the details of why.

    All I have is a 4MB executable that must* be run locally, manually and downloads all fo the content. It's not a particularly scalable mechanism...

    Hello again Terry,

    Looks like your (easy) solution is coming soon:

    http://blogs.adobe.com/oobe/2013/09/creative-cloud-packager-1-3-pre-release.html

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