Silent Installation Procedure For Adobe CS5 Suite

Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows
10/9/2013 Fatimah Altuhaifa
Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows INTRODUCTION The goal of this document is to develop a file that performs a silent installation of any product of Adobe CS5 Suite. It targets computer technicians or technical supports who need to install any product of Adobe CS5 Suit for a huge number of computers in few minutes which may take only one minute. Silent installation is useful of saving time. It is fact that some of software needs half hour or more than one hour to be installed and some company needs to install same software for more than one hundred computers. While silent installation takes around one minute to do the installation without going through the tedious process for each computer and without any active from the user. The user will need to do the customization for the software only once for the silent installation, which will be done through this procedure, then will not do the customization any more even if he/she install the software more than million times. To create the file of silent installation, technician will need to download Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition (AAMEE) and installs it in workstation. AAMEE will help in creating a MSI file that will be used in writing the code line for silent installation. Then the code line will be written in text editor with pat extinction. Missing one step from this file can cause failed to the final result. Documentation provided on Cited References, page 13 & 14. DESCRIPTION OF EQUIPMENT 1. Computer: to do the process on. 2. Any product of Adobe CS5 Suite: will be needed during the process to specify that silent installation for this specific product. 3. Application Manager Enterprise Edition (AAMEE): will be needed to customize the installation. 4. Operating system of windows: this process specially for Microsoft. SYSTEM REQUIRMENTS 1. Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 3, Windows Vista, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (Service Pack 2 recommended), or Windows 7(System Requirements). 2. For Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects a Windows Vista of 64-bit or Windows 7 of 64-bit edition is required(System Requirements). 3. 2GB of RAM (System Requirements).

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DIRECTION CREATING THE MSI FILE 1. Download Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition (AAMEE), you can download it for free from this web site http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/enterprisedeployment.html 2. Double click on link that is related to Windows and the downloading will be started (See Fig 1).
Fig. 1: The website for downloading (AAMEE) 3. Click Start button, point to All programs (see Fig 2).
Fig.2: Start menu

4. Click Adobe folder. 5. Click Adobe Application Manager Enterprise. The Welcome window will pop up (see Fig 3).
Fig.3: Pointing to Adobe Application Manger Enterprise
6. Click CREATE INSTALL PACKAGE button (see Fig 4).

Fig.4: Welcome window An Install Package Window will prompt. 7. Type Name for the Package on the Package Name field. 8. Choose path for your Package on the Save to field. Your package will be created in the path that you have chosen. 9. Borrows to your Adobe CS 5 folder that has the setup.exe file in On the Locate the Product Install Folder field. Note: you have to specify if your system support 32 bit or 64 bit. 10. Click Next button (see Fig 5).
Fig.5: Install Package window

11. Enter the Serial Number (Product Key) on the Enter Serial Number window, Then Click Next button (see Fig 6).
Fig.6: Enter Serial Number Window

12. Mark the Check Box for products that you want to install, Then Click Next button (see Fig 7).
Fig.7: Installation Option window
13. Customize your Package as you want by marking or removing the mark the Check box On the Configure Package window. Note: You have to Disable Product Launch Options for the Silent Installation.

14. Click Next button (see Fig 8).
Fig.8: Configure Package window The Updates Window will check if your Adobe CS5 cab be updated (see Fig 9).

Fig.9: Update window
15. Mark the Check box for products that you want to update, then Click Build button (see Fig 10).
Fig.10: Updates window 2

16. Wait until the updated is done (see Fig 11).
Fig.11: Download Progress window
17. Click Close button on the Summary Window (see Fig 12).

Fig.12: Summary After last step the MSI file has been created.
WRITING THE COMMUND LINE FOR THE SILENT INSTALLATION
18. Double Click on the folder that has the package, you will find it in the path that you have chosen to save it in with the name that you have chosen for it (see Fig 13).
Fig.13: Opining packages folder Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows
19. Then Double Click the Build folder (see Fig 14).
Fig.14: Build folder
Inside the Build folder you will find the Install package file with msi extension (its name depends on the name that you have chosen). You will need its path for the silent Installation commend line (see Fig 15).
Fig.15: Install and Update package.msi

To take its path: 20. Open Start button. Then Point to All programs (see Fig 16).
Fig.16: Open Start button
21. Click Accessories, Click Run (see Fig 17).
Fig.17: Click run
22. Drag the Install Package to the Run Window in the Open Field, Copy all the path for the file (see Fig 18).

Fig.18: Run window
23. Open New text editor Such as Notepad or any text editor you like to use. 24. Paste the MSIs path on it, follow it with space then /quiet parameter. You will have like this commended line.
"C:\Users\Viola\Desktop\Install and Update package\Build\Install and Update package.msi" /quiet
Note: if your Computer restart after the installation you can add /norestart parameter. 25. Save the file with bat extension, *.bat. 26. Double Click on (the bat file), to use it.

TROUBLESHOOTING
1. In case the code does not work, you can rewrite the code and replace /quiet with / more
"C:\Users\Viola\Desktop\Install and Update package\Build\Install and Update package.msi" /more Then the window will provide you with list of instruction that can be used with this code. In some cases you will need to use /q instead of /quit 2. If nothing works, just restart the computer. When the installation is happening, you will not notice anything and you will not see anything. And sometimes you will not see the installed software until you restart the computer.

Cited References Figures Figure 1. the website for downloading (AAMEE) . Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows , by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 2, Copy Write Microsoft Corp. Figure 2. Start menu. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 2, Copy Write Microsoft Corp. Figure 3. Pointing to Adobe Application Manger Enterprise . Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 3, Copy Write Microsoft Corp. Figure 4. Welcome window. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 3, Copy Write Adobe Corp. Figure 5. Install Package windo . Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 4, Copy Write Adobe Corp. Figure 6. Enter Serial Number Window. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 5, Copy Write Adobe Corp. Figure 7. Installation Option window. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 6, Copy Write Adobe Corp. Figure 8. Configure Package window . Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 7, Copy Write Adobe Corp. Figure 9. Update window. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 7, Copy Write Adobe Corp. Figure 10. Updates window 2. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 8, Copy Write Adobe Corp. Figure 11. Download Progress window. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 9, Copy Write Adobe Corp. Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows
Figure 12. Summary. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 10, Copy Write Adobe Corp. Figure 13. Opining packages folder. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 10, Copy Write Microsoft Corp. Figure 14. Build folder. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 11, Copy Write Microsoft Corp. Figure 15. Install and Update package.msi. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 11, Copy Write Microsoft Corp. Figure 16. Open Start button.. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 12, Copy Write Microsoft Corp. Figure 17. Click run. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 12, Copy Write Microsoft Corp. Figure 18. Run window. Adapted from Silent Installation procedure for Adobe CS5 Suite for Windows, by Altuhaifa F, 2013, Technical Writing Course, p. 386, Copy Write Microsoft Corp.

Websites ADOBE APPLICATION MANAGER ENTERPRISE EDITIO,2011,http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/cre ativesuite/pdfs/AdobeApplicationManagerEnterpriseEditionDeploymentGuide_v2_1.pdf Creative Suite Enterprise Deploymen, http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/enterprisedeployment.html System Requirements, http://www.adobe.com/store/en_us/popup/software/creativesuite/mastercollection5/systemreqs.ht ml


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10/9/2013 Fatimah Altuhaifa