<html><head><style media="all" type="text/css"> #sig { font:12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 13px; color: #4c4c4c ; margin: 6px 0; padding: 6px; } #sig .row a:link, #sig .row a:visited { color: #d02d33; text-decoration: none; } #sig .row a:hover { color: #4c4c4c; } </style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yeah, if you have any Adobe product on the system, the CS3 install will fail miserably. You have to run a pre-install script to remove all current Adobe products.<div><br></div><div>And we too have had issues with the updates. InDesign will sit there running for ever until you kill it. And it doesn't kill easy. I haven't gotten a chance to delve too deeply into it yet.<br><div> <div><div id="sig"> <div class="row"><br> <strong>Steve Wood</strong> <br> Director, Information Technology <br> <a href="mailto:swood@integerdallas.com">swood@integerdallas.com</a> <br><br> The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201 <br> T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6907 | C 940.312.2475 <br> <br> <img src="http://extranet.integerdallas.com/Integer/signature/green.jpg"> <br><br> </div> </div></div> </div><br><div><div>On Jun 13, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Thomas Larkin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I can't remember the specifics, but I swear I upgraded a CS2 lab to CS3<br>with the casper package....<br><br>Perhaps I ran pre script to just rm everything that Adobe puts out there<br>but I don't think I did that. It was too long ago to remember the<br>exacts though.<br><br>Thomas Larkin<br>TIS Department<br>KCKPS USD500<br><a href="mailto:tlarki@kckps.org">tlarki@kckps.org</a><br>cell: 913-449-7589<br>office: 913-627-0351<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">"Brenner, John" <<a href="mailto:john.brenner@merrillcorp.com">john.brenner@merrillcorp.com</a>> 06/13/08 11:03 AM >>><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>The biggest issue that we have had with the CS3 installers are<br>1. They must be clean installs, by this I mean there cannot be any<br>remnants<br>of Adobe CS3 or CS3 like products installed prior to a Casper CS3<br>install.<br>2. Time CS3 installs take forever. On a dual g4 I have timed it a 3<br>plus<br>hours. <br>3. Updaters: If the updater is applied to a standard Casper package it<br>likes<br>to fail. <br><br>Standard Casper install and CS3<br>1. Acrobat is Funky at best and there are differences between PPC and<br>Intel<br>installs. <br>2. Updates break the installs<br><br><br>On 6/13/08 8:11 AM, "Paul Austin" <<a href="mailto:paul.austin@wachovia.com">paul.austin@wachovia.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hoping to tap the vast wealth of knowledge that is in this group....<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">My company has finally purchased CS3 and I am looking for the best<br></blockquote>strategies<br><blockquote type="cite">for deployment as part of an initial configuration. I have been<br></blockquote>testing for<br><blockquote type="cite">several days with mixed results. Using the CS3 methods in Casper admin<br></blockquote>to<br><blockquote type="cite">create a deployment package seems to only function part of the time. I<br></blockquote>end up<br><blockquote type="cite">delivering CS3 that wants the License key on first run. (Note: I am<br></blockquote>using<br><blockquote type="cite">Design Premium and an open license). The time it takes to deliver is<br></blockquote>also too<br><blockquote type="cite">long for my liking. I have also been experimenting with delivering CS3<br></blockquote>in a<br><blockquote type="cite">policy after the initial image delivery. Results are also mixed. I<br></blockquote>know I am<br><blockquote type="cite">late to the CS3 game, but how are you guys doing your deployments?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Paul Austin<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Wachovia<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Information Technology<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Enterprise Strategy and Design<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">704-427-0903<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:paul.austin@wachovia.com">paul.austin@wachovia.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Casper mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Casper@list.jamfsoftware.com">Casper@list.jamfsoftware.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper">http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper</a><br></blockquote><br><br>John Brenner | Merrill Corporation | IOG IT | 651-632-4072<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Casper mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Casper@list.jamfsoftware.com">Casper@list.jamfsoftware.com</a><br><a href="http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper">http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><BR />
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