Installing CS3 products on Windows Server 2003

Although Adobe seems not want their customers to run their products on Server 2003, it is possible without flaws.

In order to make the setup let you proceed with install:

- Copy the whole contents of the installation media onto your hard disk
- Open \payloads\<ProductName>\<ProductName>_US_volume.proxy.xml with WordPad
- Scroll down to the very bottom and change

"Server2003":{"Exclude":true}

to

"Server2003":{"Exclude":false}

- Now save the file and start setup.exe from your local copy.