Silent install and activation of 50x copies of PhotoShop Elements 12 TLP

Question

I am trying to deploy a 50-user TLP licence of PSE12 to 50 PCs without having to visit each PC, as was possible with previous versions.
I have the silent install completing without error but the product is not activated, and needs me to sign in with an Adobe ID on each PC. Even once per PC, this is not acceptable for a network install.
Also I note that end users can Sign Out of the Adobe ID thereby deactivatingthe software for all users of the PC, until I revisit and sign in again. And no, we are not going to give all users the Adobe ID credentials. Even before events of the past week
The PSE12 install logs shows "Override files does not exist . Overwrite the value of Override dir to be a blank string" - it is not finding application.xml.override, even though the file is definitely accessible in the right places and is in UTF-8 format.
(In addition, therefore, updates are not suppressed.)
My hunch is that the application.xml.override mechanism has been removed from PSE12 because of the new Adobe ID sign-in requirement?
I'm aware that AMEE is not application to PSE deployment.
I'd be grateful for assistance on this.
Regards
William

Answer 1

Hello!
I did all required steps, as you mentioned above to serialize Adobe Elements 12, but it was not successfull. I had an return code=14 in oobelib.log.
What I did:
1) Installed "Adobe Photoshop Elements 12" on the machine
2) It has been successfully installed.
3) I opened "Command-line" cmd.exe as administrator (I have an administrative privileges on that machine)
4) Run following command:
adobe_prtk.exe --tool=VolumeSerialize --generate --serial="my_serial_number" --leid="V7{}PhotoshopElements-EMT12-Win-GM" --regsuppress=ss
where my_serial_number is my actually serial number with dashes.
5) After few seconds I got following:
          Copyright 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated
        All rights reserved.
Return Code = 14
6) oobelib.log says following:
2013-12-09 10:48:05 [34556]  Adobe PRTK: __OOBELIB_LOG_FILE__
2013-12-09 10:48:05 [34556]  Adobe PRTK: *** Adobe PRTK tool START ***
2013-12-09 10:48:05 [34556]  Adobe PRTK: Adobe PRTK tool VolumeSerialize invoked
2013-12-09 10:48:05 [34556]  Adobe PRTK: .
2013-12-09 10:48:05 [34556]  Adobe PRTK: creating  .\prov.xml
2013-12-09 10:48:05 [34556]  OOBELib: *************OOBELib Session Starts*************
2013-12-09 10:48:05 [34556]  OOBELib: Version 6.2.0.43,6.2
2013-12-09 10:48:05 [34556]  PCDService: PCD Service in non-threaded mode
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  OPMWrapper: Failed in getting value for key in OPMGetValueForKey
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  OOBELib: Failed to get Proxy username in OPM DB
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  AXFBLicensing: Failed to load axlib.dll, trying again
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  AXFBLicensing: Failed to load axlib.dll, trying again with axlib in ACF
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  AXFBLicensing: All function pointers successfully retrieved
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  OOBELib: Received Params for Online Validation : Driver : ”V7{}PhotoshopElements-EMT12-Win-GM”, Caller : 3
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  OOBELib: received LEID : ”V7{}PhotoshopElements-EMT12-Win-GM”
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  OOBELib: Supported Locales : ALL
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  OOBELib: OOBELib ValidateSerialOnline
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  OOBELib: Invalid licensing leid passed-[”V7{}PhotoshopElements-EMT12-Win-GM”].
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  OOBELib: IAL Failed to set the LicensingLEID, falling back to GM
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  OOBELib: Validate using Driver LEID : ”V7{}PhotoshopElements-EMT12-Win-GM”, App LEID : <blank>, SN : *******************************************
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  OOBELib: Failed to get system default proxy in setProxyCredentialsForIALSession
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  OOBELib: Failed to set proxy credentials for IAL session while validating serial number
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  OOBELib: HTTPCommunicationAgent::processMessage is https://lm.licenses.adobe.com/aes/aes/v1/serialInfo (extURL=)
2013-12-09 10:48:06 [34556]  OOBELib: Using proxy server.
2013-12-09 10:48:07 [34556]  OOBELib: HTTP Request Status code 200.
2013-12-09 10:48:07 [34556]  OOBELib: HTTPCommunicationAgent- Return Code:[0] response size-[232] time taken-[1599.47]ms.
2013-12-09 10:48:07 [34556]  OOBELib: Got error from server-[9].
2013-12-09 10:48:07 [34556]  OOBELib: ErrDesc from server: Some unknown error has occurred. : No associated Driver LEID is present in the database..
2013-12-09 10:48:07 [34556]  OOBELib: Validate Serial status-[521] took-[1620.81]ms.
2013-12-09 10:48:07 [34556]  OOBELib: OOBELib IAL VSN unknown error occured
2013-12-09 10:48:07 [34556]  OOBELib: OOBELib IAL ValidateSerial call has failed : 521
2013-12-09 10:48:07 [34556]  OOBELib: Using Driver/ALL combination for offline/invalid SNs scenario
2013-12-09 10:48:07 [34556]  OOBELib: SN validated for AAMEE mode
2013-12-09 10:48:08 [34556]  OOBELib: OOBELib stat = 257
2013-12-09 10:48:08 [34556]  Adobe PRTK: Failed to validate the serial number
2013-12-09 10:48:08 [34556]  Adobe PRTK: Return code 14
2013-12-09 10:48:08 [34556]  Adobe PRTK: *** Adobe PRTK tool END ***
where SN : ******************************************* - is my serial number, I think. I changed it to * due to the security reasons.
PS. I have an internet connection.
What I do wrong? Can somebody help me?