Problem Deploying Creative Suite 5.5 to Windows 7 64 Bit

Question

Hi,
I`ve been looking into deploying CS 5.5 Design Premium to our teaching machines for the last few days now.
Finding it very difficult to get the suite to deploy.
Have used the  Application Manager Enterprise Edition to package the software and then put this on our network.
I`m  then using windows group policy to deploy the software to our workstations.
Unfortuantely io`m finding that the install is constantly failing.
Looking at the log files I`m finding entries like these. What do you suggest?
----------- Payload: {24586955-A50A-4E76-AF2C-7F8EB833FBB1} Adobe Illustrator CS5.1_AdobeIllustrator15_1en_GBLanguagePack 15.1.0.0 -----------
FATAL: DS003: Cannot extract '\\devdomain\ude\Apps\Adobe\Creative Suite\Adobe CS5.5 Design Premium\Build\\Setup\payloads\AdobeIllustrator15_1en_GBLanguagePack\Assets1_1.zip' to 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\adobeTemp\{24586955-A50A-4E76-AF2C-7F8EB833FBB1}'. Error: Error 64 The specified network name is no longer available.
ERROR: DW050: The following payload errors were found during install:
ERROR: DW050:  - Adobe Illustrator CS5.1: Failed due to Language Pack installation failure
ERROR: DW050:  - Adobe Illustrator CS5.1_AdobeIllustrator15_1en_GBLanguagePack: Install failed
FATAL: DS003: Cannot extract '\\devdomain\ude\Apps\Adobe\Creative Suite 5.5\Adobe CS 5.5\Build\\Setup\payloads\AdobeFlash11.5-en_USLanguagePack\Assets1_1.zip' to 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\adobeTemp\{970C9F3A-39C5-480B-BE51-7C70AB9F84DB}'. Error: Error 64 The specified network name is no longer available.
ERROR: DW050: The following payload errors were found during install:
ERROR: DW050:  - Adobe Flash CS5.5_AdobeFlash11.5-en_USLanguagePack: Install failed
ERROR: DW050:  - Adobe Flash CS5.5: Failed due to Language Pack installation failure
Many Thanks
Mike Beales
Software Support
University of Southampton
England

Answer 1

Hi Mike,
I'm also trying to deploy the package in an Education environment. So far we've worked out that the path tends to eat up quite a length and ideally should be reduced. Out deployment tool at the moment is Altiris, and there's a call in with them to fix a specific problem with that.
As a result we copy the package locally and install it from a slightly shorter directory structure. Also of note - to deploy and run the package:
You'll need to SHIM the java.cpl files and Adobe Extension manager exe, using the Application Compatibility Toolkit from Microsoft (or google Manifest + Windows 7). The SHIM fix you're looking for is RunAsInvoker as far as I can work out.
Unfortunately the package we've created still doesn't deploy 100%, the set-up.dat file deep inside the package seems to work and starts creating shortcuts etc but then fails at some point later in the installation. We're still investigating what's gone wrong as it then rolls everything back.