I've been fighting geting Adobe Creative Cloud to install properly from a LiteTouch deployment share. In my troubleshooting, I was always able to install the exceptions just fine, but the MSI package created by Adobe's Creative Cloud Packager would not run successfully from a network share. When I tried to log what was happening, I kept getting a 1603 error in the InstallFinalize step along the lines of the following:
Action start 13:33:43: InstallFinalize.
CustomAction CADeploy returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)
Action ended 13:34:15: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
Action ended 13:34:15: INSTALL. Return value 3.
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=== Logging stopped: 4/2/2014 13:34:15 ===
MSI (s) (B4:2C) [13:34:15:574]: Product: AdobeCreativeCloud -- Installation operation failed.
MSI (s) (B4:2C) [13:34:15:574]: Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: AdobeCreativeCloud. Product Version: 1.2.0000. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Adobe Systems Incorporated. Installation success or error status: 1603.
In my experience, error 1603 usually means some sort of file access issue (either it is missing or you don't have permissions to access it). What was confusing was that when I ran the deployment from a local drive it was always successful. After searching forums and Google for many hours I decided to come up with my own workaround. I zipped up the "Build" folder in my created package, and then wrote a batch script to extract the Build folder to a temporary directory and then install from there. This method has worked every time. The only downside is that it is a bit slower than the method that should work (and used to when I created an Adobe CC package around the same time last year).
If you'd like to recreate my resolution:
1. Download 7-zip and extract 7z.exe and 7z.dll from the installer.
2. Copy these files to your Adobe CC package folder (same one that has packagename.ccp).
3. Create a ZIP file of your Build folder in your Adobe CC package folder. Mine is just Build.zip.
4. In your silent install script, just extract the Build.zip file to a temporary folder and install the MSI package from there.
You can use my own silent installation script to see how this is all done.
pushd "%~dp0"
REM Install Adobe applications that much be installed before the main package.
start /wait /D "Exceptions" "ExceptionsDeployer" Exceptions\ExceptionDeployer.exe --workflow=install --mode=pre --installLangauge=en_US
REM Extract the Adobe CC "Build" folder to a temporary directory and install
start /wait "Adobe CC Extraction" 7z.exe x -o%temp%\AdobeCCBuild Build.zip
start /wait "Adobe CC Install" msiexec /i %temp%\AdobeCCBuild\Build\AdobeCreativeCloud.msi /qb
REM Install Adobe applications that must be installed after the main package
start /wait /D "Exceptions" "ExceptionsDeployer" Exceptions\ExceptionDeployer.exe --workflow=install --mode=post
REM Update Adobe Acrobat XI to 11.0.06
start /wait "Acrobat Update" msiexec /p AcrobatUpd11006.msp /qb
REM Remove the temporary directory we created.
rmdir /s /q %temp%\AdobeCCBuild