Solved: Building a custom ISO with MSMG Toolkit - Want Adobe and Office products still be functional

Discussion in 'Windows 10' started by DaveedMee, Jan 5, 2021.

  1. DaveedMee

    DaveedMee MDL Novice

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    Hi there!

    I want to build a slim Windows 10 Pro N x64 ISO based on 20H2 (Build 19042.631) which has all the unneccesary stuff removed and some privacy tweaks applied. This is my second attempt now so I could really need some help.

    The first ISO that I created had all of the stuff removed that MSMG had to offer. I know that with such "Lite" or "AME" builds you can't get Office or Adobe stuff to work. Same problem with my custom ISO.

    I want to note here that I HAVE TO USE MS Office 365 and the Adobe Creative Suite with programs like Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere, Animate and InDesign. There are no workarounds or similar options for me. This Windows partition is just for my work. I don't want to play any games on it, just run these programs.

    My first attempt lead to the Creative Cloud installer straight up telling me that "This application cannot be installed on your current operating system" and closing out of it. Asking Adobe support just gave me a waste of time and some FAQs with stuff that doesn't apply to me.

    I think this error is related to me disabling the telemetry services but I want to know if there is a possibility to install and use these programs but keeping my OS slim. So far I have found nothing on the interwebs. If I have to use some telemetry "features" I will do so, but I want to keep them as little as possible.

    Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
     
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    MSMG MDL Developer

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  3. DaveedMee

    DaveedMee MDL Novice

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    #3 DaveedMee, Jan 5, 2021
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    OMG thank you so much! I never expected to get an answer so quick AND from the developer of MSMG!

    I'll try it out now. Again, thank you so much! I