Serializing Multiple Products with AdobeSerialization.exe Tool

Report · Aug 28, 2012

Is it possible to serialize multiple products at once with the AdobeSerialization.exe Tool?

For example, I have created Trial packages for Adobe CS6 Design and Web Premium as well as Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and installed them on the same machine. Can I somehow chain the serialization step together with one command, or do I need to store the XML files in different directories (or rename them in the same directory) and run the AdobeSerialization.exe tool multiple times?

Report · Sep 07, 2012

Well I tested the solution with creating different directories and it turned out that only the last command run will be the activated product.

In my enviornment I have both Design and Web Premium and Production Premium

What I wanted to do was to install both editions on a master image and then later deploy it to other computers.

So I read the documentation and thought that this new way of making a trial package and the later a serialization package would be great.

This also work if you only install one edition. I use FirstLogonCommands to activate and the later delete the folder. And then I thought that it would work when I ran extra commands.

I would first activate Design and Web Premium and then afterwards delete that folder(The one with the AdobeSerialization.exe and prov.xml). This works with just one product to activate

Then I would activate Production Premium and afterwards delete that folder. This activated the Production Premium package and somehow erased the activation of the Design and Web Premium.

To test it further I tried changing the order of the FirstLogonCommands so that it would activate Production Premium first and afterwards activate Design and Web Premium. Result: Design and Web Premium was activated and Production Premium was still a trial.

So from my research atm its not possible and maybe Adobe havn't thought about that scenario when they made these changes to activate each machine.

Report · Sep 11, 2012

Hi,

Serialization should work in this coexistence scenario explained by you. We have verified these scenarios and this should work fine.

Can you please share amt3.log and oobelib.log copied in /tmp

thanks,

Rahul | rbaiswar@adobe.com

Report · Sep 12, 2012

Here is what I ended up doing:

1. Installed Trial versions of Adobe CS6 Design & Web Premium, Premiere Pro CS6, Audition CS6, and After Effects CS6

2. Created Serialization packages for each of those products

3. Using a Symantec Ghost Console task, copied individual serialization folders for each product to the target machine:

C:\AdobeSerial\DWP
C:\AdobeSerial\Prem
C:\AdobeSerial\Aud
C:\AdobeSerial\AE

4. Again, using a Ghost Console task executed each serialization command one-at-a-time

C:\AdobeSerial\DWP\AdobeSerialization --tool=VolumeSerialize
C:\AdobeSerial\Prem\AdobeSerialization --tool=VolumeSerialize
C:\AdobeSerial\Aud\AdobeSerialization --tool=VolumeSerialize
C:\AdobeSerial\AE\AdobeSerialization --tool=VolumeSerialize

The end result was that the four packages were successfully serialized on the target computers.

Report · Sep 12, 2012

Good to know that licensing issue you were facing, is resolved. Thanks for confirming!!

-rahul