Managing Adobe updates remotely via Jamf or other MDM#
Adobe provides their Remote Update Manager tool, which you can read more about from Adobe
There is an excellent script for using Adobe RUM via Jamf, from John Mahlman, here: https://github.com/jmahlman/Mac-Admin-Scripts/blob/master/Adobe-RUMWithProgress-jamfhelper.sh
One problem you will encounter with RUM, is that it will download available updates but fail to apply them, when an Adobe app is still running.
To handle that gracefully, I suggest the following script snippet (also listed here), which will invoke AppleScript and ask the user quit all running Adobe apps, and prompt them to save any unsaved changes.
#!/bin/sh
#other code here
quit_all_adobe_apps ()
{
osascript <<EOF
tell application "System Events"
set adobeApps to displayed name of (every process whose background only is false and (name starts with "Adobe" or name is "Distiller")) as list
end tell
repeat with appName in adobeApps
set end of adobeApps to appName
end repeat
try
if adobeApps is not {} then
repeat with currentApp in adobeApps
if application currentApp is running then
try
tell application currentApp to activate
tell application currentApp to quit
end try
end if
end repeat
end if
end try
EOF
}
# other code here
quit_all_adobe_apps