Where to start with a licensing server for Mac and Windows

Hi all,
We have quite a mixture of OSX and Windows across the hundreds of computers we are running. We are on a volume key for all the CS3 products we buy but we still deploy them manually on a MAC but use specops (AD deployment) for the PC). There are some patches now for CS3 and for the MAC we would need to deploy it manually to a large number of machines.
What I want to do is a) set up a server for deploying software and managing the licenses and b) deploying packages for patches or getting the machines to connect to a deployment server.
I have been looking around the Adobe site but I can't find anything that outlines what I need to do to get started with this.
Thanks for any info that can be provided.
Steven

Likely your best option is to go for some 3rd party software.
As for license tracking you could look into license statistics:
http://www.x-formation.com/license_statistics/index.html
Stefan
http://kb.x-formation.com
http://www.x-formation.com/lm-x_license_manager/index.html

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