Adobe Captivate (2019 release) Silent Deployment

Follow the steps below to create a pre-activated package of Captivate (2019 release) and deploy it silently using the command line-

• Download Adobe Creative Cloud Packager (CCP) from Licensing website (LWS). Alternatively, you may also download it by visiting the following link- 
  • Windows
  • macOS
• Install Creative Cloud Packager and go to Start menu > All Programs > Creative Cloud Packager to launch it.   
• Select Create Package.

• Specify a name for the package you are creating and choose a location to save it and license type should be “Serial Number License”. You may select 32 bit package for 32 bit Operating System and 64 bit for 64 bit Operating System and click Next.

• Enter the Serial key for Adobe Captivate 2019 and click Next.

• To create the package, choose Adobe Captivate 2019 & Updates and click Build.

Follow the steps below to test the silent deployment of Captivate 2019 package created using CCP.

Windows

• Launch command prompt in administrative mode.      
• Give the path till the “Build” folder of the created package. For e.g. if the package is saved on the Desktop, then the path in CMD should be as below-

          C:\Users\[username]\Desktop\package folder\Build      

• Type the following command in order to deploy the package silently:

          msiexec.exe /i  packagename.msi  /quiet

• In order to monitor the silent installation, launch “Task Manager” and you will see there are three process of “msiexec.exe” running. One will be under [System] and other two will be under [username].
• Installation will be completed once both the process of “msiexec.exe” under [username] are finished.

You may deploy all the packages in the “Exceptions” folder by following the below instructions-

• Launch command prompt in administrative mode.
• Give the path till the “Exceptions” folder of the created package. For e.g. if the package is saved on the Desktop, then the patch in CMD should be as below-

          C:\Users\[username]\Desktop\CP2019\Exceptions

• Type the following command in order to deploy the exceptions silently-

          ExceptionDeployer --workflow=install --mode=post

Mac OS

• Launch terminal window on Mac OS.
• Give the path to the directory where you have saved the package.  For example, if the package is saved on the Desktop, then you may type cd desktop on the terminal window and press Enter.
• Then type cd package folder on the terminal window and press Enter and type again cd Build and press Enter.
• Now type the following command on the terminal window and press Enter-

          sudo installer -pkg <install_pkg_name> -target /

• The deployment process will be started now.