Adobe Creative Cloud for SCCM 2012 Deployments
- Adobe Creative Cloud Silent Install.
- Creative Cloud Packager does not perform an install; it creates a deployment package that records the install decisions an IT admin makes ahead of time. When creating a package using Creative Cloud Packager, you download the applications and their updates, configure product options, and generate a package in native installer formats (MSI or PKG).
The app also shares and saves all information in the cloud-based environment. Creative Cloud 5.3.0.468 for Mac is available as a free download on our application library. The application lies within Productivity Tools, more precisely Cloud Services. This free Mac application is an intellectual property of Adobe Systems Inc.
As a Application, not OSD.
Stupid software...
This is for enterprise licenses only!
Step 1
Create the Adobe Creative Cloud package with the CCP tool.
Get the Creative Cloud Packager from the Adobe Licensing Website (LWS) or Enterprise Dashboard. See here for more details.
Step 2
This is the information that states Acrobat will not get installed, reads the notes section.
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/packager/deploying-acrobat.html
Read this link, this contains the information for the Batch script you will use in SCCM. Its important to note that if you use the MSI installer, Adobe Acrobat will not get installed as mentioned above.
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/packager/using-exceptions-deployer.html
The document states that if you use the setup.exe then Acrobat will get installed. The problem is that is if you use the setup.exe, the deployment is inconsistent from SCCM. Check in Program & Features (Add/Remove Programs), sometimes it will install 20 line items, the next machine will install 23 line items, the next machine will install 28 line items etc etc. The full suite consists of 28 line items, including Acrobat.
Quote: For Acrobat DC, Exception Deployer Application is not required. For Acrobat DC, you only need to run the setup.exe in the Build folder which will install Acrobat DC, the chosen type of license and any main applications not found in the Exceptions directory.
So following the guidance from the link above from Adobe, we will be using the Batch script with some modifications. After the Exceptions Deploy Pre section, we want to add this code to the script. Make sure you are traversing up and back down the correct amount of folders!
Its important you install Acrobat before the main Creative Cloud install! This will allow Acrobat to be licensed correctly, otherwise when you start Acrobat, it will ask you to sign into AAM.
If you want to have no shortcuts on the desktop then add this after the Exceptions
Optional
Adobe Acrobat, you can either use the command line above. Or you can use the Adobe Customization Wizard to create a transform to apply via the ini fill within the Acrobat setup 'bits'.
Adobe Creative Cloud Packager
Key to disable Acrobat to take ownership causing a UAC prompt, will need to GPO this bit.
