There are, however, two caveats to this approach: You need to run this command with superuser privileges for it to work properly (which Munki does anyways), but it does what it says on the tin: removes Photoshop (PHSP) version 21.0, without removing any user preferences. uninstall = 1 -sapCode =PHSP -baseVersion =21.0 -platform =osx10-64 \
Library/Application \ Support/Adobe/Adobe \ Desktop \ Common/HDBox/Setup \ As far as I can tell, the only requirement for this method to work is that the CCDA is installed, which is ideal for us, as we want to run it before removing the CCDA using the uninstaller. These uninstallers are actually symlinks that link into /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Uninstall/, which is a centralised location where uninstallers for all of the installed applications seem to be kept.Īdobe also provides for a second, more centralised option. for Photoshop 2021: /Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ 2021/Uninstall\ Adobe\ Photoshop\ 2021. The most visible one is actually to use the uninstaller that comes with each app, e.g. So then, we consider a second possibility - can we remove the installed Adobe CC apps before removing the CCDA?Īs it turns out, maybe! There are a couple of ways to uninstall applications once they’ve been installed. We plan on doing this, although Munki prompts are often ignored.
Indeed, the results of attempting to do so are quite messy.Īn obvious solution is to then inform users that they should uninstall all of their CC apps before trying to remove the CCDA. The Creative Cloud desktop app can only be uninstalled if all Creative Cloud apps (such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro) have already been uninstalled from the system. If they no longer need CCDA, they can just remove it through Munki as well. Because our users have varying needs, we provide them with just the CCDA through Munki, and allow them to install the software they want/need. We currently use Munki as our software distribution mechanism on macOS. In this way, we can assign application licenses on an as-needed basis, instead of purchasing complete Adobe Suite licenses for all of our users. In short, this means that users will install an Adobe CC Desktop Application (CCDA) that we provide, and log in with some Adobe credentials that we also provide (and manage). At work, we’re getting ready to roll out Adobe CC via Named User Licensing.
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