Install Adobe Creative Suite 3 on Windows Server
1. Install using DVD other components, like Dreamweaver etc.
2. Now go to Program FilesCommon FilesAdobeInstallers498b43b77cac072081a5692bfc52804 (please note the big number there will be different than what you see, depending on computer to computer i suppose.
3. Now open up the payloads folder you see in above folder. Edit AdobePhotoshop10en_US.proxy.xml found in folder : AdobePhotoshop10en_US , and go to very bottom of file (use wordpad or notepad) and Change: “Server2003″:{“Exclude“:true},” to “Server2003″:{“Require“:true},” . So bascially you are just changing Exclude to Require , which does the trick, save and close file.
4. Now open up AdobeIllustrator13en_US.proxy.xml in AdobeIllustrator13en_US folder (which is inside the same payloads folder), and again do the same as did in step 3 above aka , change exclude to require.
5. Now use the setup.exe file to execute the installer, and now you can see a tick box not-greyed out no more beside the components you wish to install, like Illustrator and Photoshop or anything else that was greyed and used the steps 2-4 accordingly.