To extract the Adobe Professional 9.x MSI installer for enterprise deployment: Download the APRO9_Win_ESD1_WWEFG.exe from licensing.adobe.com after you've been approved and received your licen… Read More

I found that we needed to have most users access Acrobat Reader, and only licensed users use Professional 8 (and see the Adobe PDF printer) on the same TS. To do this I created an Active Direc… Read More

Deploying Acrobat Professional 8.1.2 to users without local admin rights. If user does not have admin right on the local machine, they were having issues in generating a PDF from Office and ot… Read More

The print to PDF function changed in v8.1.2 in a way that non-admin-users can no longer use that feature. This version wants to write to a registry key in HKLM where the ordinary user has no ri… Read More

The most basic Command Line I found that works on most of our worksations. net use D: (specific UNC path) D: cd "Applications\Acrobat Professional v8.1" AcroPro.msi /q /qn TRANSFORMS="AcroPro… Read More

Site License solutions: 1.Download the AdobeConfig.zip file and extract the AdobeConfig.xml file. (http://www.adobe.com/support/acrobat/ts/documents/kb402686/AdobeConfig.zip) 2.Before you ins… Read More

I created an ADM file for the following HKCU settings because we wanted to set the following: 1. Get rid of the splashscreen 2. Set the organization name 3. Change the connection speed to LAN … Read More

Here is how I did the installation at our facility. We ran into some problems because we were upgrading all existing users from professional v6. v6 needs to be uninstalled before v8 can be inst… Read More

For the corporate edition you don't need an activition of Acrobat Professional 8. So you can deploy the MSI with some features: PIDKEY=s/n A3D_TB_SN=s/n PRP_TN_SN=s/n (I had to use those thr… Read More

Adobe evidently thinks it knows your build security better than you do, so the first job to do when you have your transform is to delete the LockPermissions table. [Edited 4th July 2007] ...exc… Read More

Copy the Acrobat 8 Professional folder to a location on the network. Use the abcpy.ini file included on the disc to input the correct serial and owner names. IE - Make sure the below options … Read More

Note if your editing the MSI via Orca or another MSI editor make sure that you enter the values for Disable Registration [HKLM\Software\Policies\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\8.0\FeatureLockDown] bRegi… Read More

For german installation I use the Adobe Customization Wizard first. Next I edit the MSI with Orca and change the Property "ProductLanguage" to 1031. This works fine with "msiexec" as silent in… Read More

Watch the Product code a number of components have conditions based on the product code that came with the original install. Read More

The customisation wizard only removes previous versions from 6 and later. We had packaged and deployed acrobat 5 at some stage. To remove this before installing 8, add the following lines to … Read More

Adobe has disabled E-licensing on all their volume-licensed products. This includes Acrobat 8. Great news as I was going crasy trying to set up the Adobe license Server. Read More

There is a new tool to customize Adobe Acrobat/Reader 8 Products: Adobe Customization Wizard This tool supersedes the InstallShield Tuner. - Credits go to aross for finding above tool. Only t… Read More

Here is the process we used to publish Acrobat 8.0 Pro into our Radia environment using shortfile names. 1) Made a copy of the acropro.msi and data1.cab and remove the read only attributes 2)… Read More

PROPERTIES Make Acrobat Pro the default application IW_DEFAULT_VERB=Open Make Acrobat Reader the default application IW_DEFAULT_VERB=Read Enable Caching of Local installer files ENABLE_CACHE… Read More

You can disable the yahoo- and websearch button by pasting the following text in a new file C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat\Javascripts\disable_yahoo.js: ================================== //Th… Read More

If you are running Windows at higher than default security settings, you may receive the following error when trying to print to the PDFMaker printer from various applications: "The Document F… Read More

The package comes as an MSI, but be aware. You MUST download a license file from the Adobe server in order for the application to be valid longer than 30 days. The serial number is no longer … Read More

If you modify the original MSI there is a problem with inputing the serial number. This is because the property for the serial number is incorrect. The original has ISX_SERIALNUM where it sho… Read More

After encountering problems applying the Patches 7.05/7.07 and 7.08 on clients with no administrative rights, I finally decided to do an administrative installation. Then patched the admin inst… Read More

If you have a "My Documents" folder that is redirected to anything else then the default location you wont be able to Add new PDF settings through Distiller (Settings -> Add Adobe-PDF Settings … Read More