Systems Management

Your best bet is push the 'msiexec /x {YOUR GUID HERE}' command to the machines, followed by the installation command.

So you could created a query based collection to look for acrobat 5, for example, push the uninstall command to those machines and create a dependancy so that it then pushes 7.

The first key with SMS is to get it to work outside of SMS. Sounds weird but don't bother with SMS until you get a method that works via command line (preferrably silently). As for uninstalling 4.x and 5.x, I don't think either are MSI based so doing msiexec /x probably won't work for either but you can check by going to hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\Windows\current version\uninstall on machines with those versions and seeing if there is a key for it.

Check here for more uninstall options:
http://www.appdeploy.com/packages/detail.asp?id=21

Ok so I checked out reader 5.0 and there is no GUID string. There is an uninstallstring in the reg but it shows

C:\WINNT\ISUNINST.EXE -f"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\NT\Uninst.isu" -c"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\NT\Uninst.dll"

Thanks for the input all....

-Dwayne