Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 | Virtualisation

About

Adobe Photoshop Elements is an entry-level raster graphics editor. It is a successor of Adobe Photoshop LE (Limited Edition).

As with many other older applications, for security reasons we will virtualise it using App-V. The App-V Sequencer for Windows 10 is freely available in the Windows 10 ADK for the branch you are on.

Prerequisites

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable x86 9.0.30729.17
Must be installed prior to capture process, and will be a dependency of the package going forward.
Install command: vcredist_x86.exe /q

Capture

Best practice; create an application.xml.override file to be referenced by any directory that contains an MSI.

application.xml.override

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Configuration>
<Payload>
<Data key="EULADelay">0</Data>
<Data key="EULA">Suppress</Data>
<Data key="Registration">Suppress</Data>
<Data key="Updates">Suppress</Data>
</Payload>
</Configuration>

Copy this to the source directory.
Also copy to the ElementsOrganiser subdirectory.

Edit the Setup.ini file in the source directory and add the following contents under OEM:

DISABLEEMSFEATURES=1
DISABLEOLSFEATURES=1
WATCHSERVICE=0

Reboot. After reboot, launch the App-V sequencer.

Manual Install | Smoke Testing

You can globally install or remove your AppV using PowerShell for testing. The script can be called form the command line as follows:

powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "%~dp0publish.ps1"

publish.ps1

# This script performs the installation or uninstallation of an application(s).
# Created 12/09/2019 | cru2.io


# Publish App-V
[string]$CurrentPath = Split-Path -Parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
[string]$pkgName = "Adobe_PhotoshopElements_11.0"

Import-Module AppVClient | Out-Null
Enable-AppV | Out-Null
Set-AppvClientConfiguration -EnablePackageScript $true | Out-Null
Add-AppvClientPackage "$CurrentPath\$pkgName.appv" | Publish-AppvClientPackage -Global | Out-Null

Manual Uninstall

The uninstall script first unpublishes and then removes the AppV from your system. If any errors occur it is generally because files are locked. Reboot and run the uninstall script again if this occurs. The script can be called from command line as follows:

powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "%~dp0unpublish.ps1"

unpublish.ps1

# This script performs the installation or uninstallation of an application(s).
# Created 12/09/2019 | cru2.io


# Unpublish App-V
[string]$pkgName = "Adobe_PhotoshopElements_11.0"

Import-Module AppVClient | Out-Null
Set-AppvClientConfiguration -EnablePackageScript $true | Out-Null
Unpublish-AppvClientPackage $pkgName -Global | Out-Null
Remove-AppvClientPackage $pkgName | Out-Null