- #HOW TO CHANGE ADOBE CS3 SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER#
- #HOW TO CHANGE ADOBE CS3 SERIAL NUMBER INSTALL#
You also need to open Acrobat before PDFs are associated with it. Note that you also may need to open something other than Acrobat (such as Photoshop or Illustrator) before Acrobat will work. You may need to reboot afterwards before the CS3 apps will work.
#HOW TO CHANGE ADOBE CS3 SERIAL NUMBER INSTALL#
This install may take a little while (like, an hour, depending on your network, setup options, and machine). You can check that it is, however, by opening Task Manager and looking for active setup.exe and mesiexec.exe processes, as well as monitor that files are appearing (and in some cases, disappearing) in c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\ and c:\Program Files\Adobe\. Nothing will appear to happen because it’s running silent. \\servername\deploy\AdobeCS3\Setup.exe -mode=Silent -deploymentFile=\\servername\deploy\AdobeCS3\deployment\install.xml -skipProcessCheck=1 You can now check CS3 will install using these settings using the following command (all on one line!) from the Run box: I renamed these files to “install.xml” and “uninstall.xml” respectively, and then copied them to the \\servername\deploy\AdobeCS3\deployment folder. In my case, they were called “Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design ” and “Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design ”, but the actual name may vary depending on which CS3 package you’re installing. Once completed, it puts two XML files in the c:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers folder. You then run through a “fake” install of CS3, where you can choose which components to install. \\servername\deploy\AdobeCS3\setup.exe -record=1 Make sure you run it from a workstation, and make sure CS3 isn’t installed already! These can be created automatically by running setup.exe from the command line with the record option. Next you need the install and uninstall xml files. In my case, it was “AdobeDesignSuitePremiumen_US_Volume”, so the override file went in AdobeCS3\payloads\AdobeDesignSuitePremiumen_US_Volume. There’ll be an entry for¬¨‚Ć “Driver folder=”, and it’s the folder name after that you’re looking for. To find out where to put this file, you need to look at the Setup.xml file in the AdobeCS3\payloads folder. The three “suppress” lines stop some info boxes popping up for end users during install.
#HOW TO CHANGE ADOBE CS3 SERIAL NUMBER SERIAL NUMBER#
Replace the 000000000000s with your CS3 serial number (without spaces or dashes). Firstly, there’s the “” file, which contains the serial number: I didn’t use a space in the folder name as this was reported as causing problems, but it may not be important. This folder is shared as \\servername\deploy\AdobeCS3. On the server I use to install files from, I copied the contents of the CS3 DVD to a folder called AdobeCS3. There were several problems to overcome, including lack of MSIs, inability to “roll your own” MSI due to the Adobe Licencing Service throwing a wobbly if you do, inserting the serial number, forcing it to install on machines with under a gig of RAM, coping with the sheer size of the install files, and assorted other issues and nonsense. After what seems like a year of aborted attempts, this week I’ve made a concerted effort to deploy Adobe CS3 Design Premium on our XP network.