Adobe After effects cs3 deployment

Hi
I am hoping someone here can help me. I have to deploy Adobe after effects CS3 to about 30 pc's.
I have done the following command
setup--record=1 which generated a install.xml file and an uninstall.xml file
I am still struggling to understand what the install.override.xml does?,
Lastly is there any way to include the updates needed for after effects cs3 during the deployment?
Any help or advice would greatly be appreciated

I am still struggling to understand what the install.override.xml does?
It overrides dependencies for local installs like language selection and serialization or otehrwise some packages would not install.
Lastly is there any way to include the updates needed for after effects cs3 during the deployment?
Not that I know of, but you could just create a custom MSI script/package that installs them immediately after the original software.
Mylenium

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