Upgrading to Leopard - First impressions
So, Leopard is finally
here. I started my upgrade yesterday. First of all I
made sure I had a good backup. Superduper did that for me. I
had a complete clone and a user files backup as
well. I then made sure as many applications as
possible were the latest versions. Some have had
patches made available even since I did that.
1Password has had two updates
since yesterday morning.
All went well during the process of upgrading. My
machine rebooted fine. All in all I have to say, a
very smooth upgrade.
I have been working through my applications and all
seems to be working fine for the most part. Below are
a list of my findings so far :-
* Repairing disk permissions just gave me the
stripped progress bar. It didn't seem to do anything.
* Quicktime went back to standard version.
* Final Cut Studio 2 had lost its serial number. When
I tried to put it back in, it would accept it, but as
I wasn't an admin it would not right the file to the
disk. I had to log out and do it again as an admin.
* Growl Mail doesn't work. They are working on an
upgrade
* Built in VPN doesn't work with the office Cisco VPN
and Crypocard, but the Cisco Client works fine.
* Spaces works great, but I think it will take some
getting used to. The preference pane could do with
being bigger. Once you add a lot of applications, it
is hard to see which Space they are in.
I will post more information as I work more in
Leopard.
Using Apple Remote Desktop To Install Adobe CS3
Adobe have a manual showing how to do this and it can be found at http://www.adobe.com/support/deployment/cs3_deployment.pdf. It does have a typo in it. I have noted it further down.
They also have a flash movie and it can be found here https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/ard
It actually seems to be pretty simple. These are the steps I took for a successful installation.
I copied the Photoshop DVD to a folder in my shared directory called CS3.
In the folder I made a xml file called, application.xml.override file. This contains your serial number.
Mine looks like this. You have to take the dashes out of the serial number.
serial number no dashes here
Suppress
Suppress
Suppress
All I then had to do was copy the CS3 folder I made to the client via ARD, and then send the following Unix command as root to the target machine.
"/Users/Shared/CS3/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Setup.app/Contents/MacOS/"Setup --mode=silent --deploymentFile="/Users/Shared/CS3/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Adobe Photoshop CS3/deployment.xml"
This is the line in the manual has wrong. It says --deploymentFiles and it should be --deploymentFile
After that, as long as all applications are closed Photoshop will install silently. I also have Illustrator working as well. It is basically the same steps as above, but where you see "Photoshop" in the Unix command replace with "Illustrator"
I am now trying to get all these steps into an Automator script. At the moment the individual parts work, but they time out, and so won't run one after the other.
