Individual product silent installations

Question

Hi,
I work at a university, and there are a number of departments that make use of adobe software, ranging from the master disk cs5.5 to just photoshop cs4.
My problem is that with the deployment solution we are using, we are trying to limit the number of installtions put together, and have then as generic as possible.
The idea was to package the individual programs into silent installtions, but that brought a new problem, the download for acrobat x pro for example, works with a stand alone volume license key, but it wont work with the volume license key for the master disk.
Is there a way to install the programs as individual packages and to also make them use any of the legal keys at the university?

Answer 1

Don't think so. Each installer is signed with its own set of cryptographic keys and therefore will only accept serial numbers applicable to these keys. Same for the licensing system and activation. Perhaps you're trying to over-optimize this too much. Most companies I've worked at/ with regarding this stuff simply install a huge master image and then run config scrripts to remove the start menu items or block executables based on group policies and all that, so users don't get confused. Yes, it wastes a lot of disk space and yes it bloats the registry, but it usually is not a problem, as this stuff is tested and optimized quite a bit beforehand...
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