Adobe Reader 9
To be sure that you don't have any autoupdaters enabled, you can create a custom inventory rule that checks for the registry for the presence of the disable updater entry: RegistryValueEquals(… Read More
if you have a package with 9.1 msi then install all the patches (9.4 and above) up to 9.5 you will probably encounter a problem repairing the whole package. The 9.4 patch will fail to repair … Read More
Package deployment and patch chaining tips. Collected and distilled from the Acrobat Enterprise Administration guide. Patches must be installed in order on top of the base release. Chaining of… Read More
Disabling Menus and Buttons To disable UI elements, you will first need to list all of the elements by name. To do this, save the following script as ListItems.js in %ProgramFiles%\Adobe\Read… Read More
Disabling Menus and Buttons To disable UI elements, you will first need to list all of the elements by name. To do this, save the following script as ListItems.js in %ProgramFiles%\Adobe\Read… Read More
If you are using the cust. wizard and users are no longer able to use weblinks in .pdf Find the below key and make it as it is under here. 2 keys are to be deleted. Windows Registry Editor Ver… Read More
The installation of the 9.4 patch never worked for me: got always an error message saying that the product is not installed. So I looked at the update folder in all user profile and found a fu… Read More
If you are attempting to apply a per user setting using the Installshield Tuner for Adobe, the registry setting should be in hku\.default user not in hkcu. We used this specific setting which … Read More
In case you want to install a french version of adobe reader on Vista FR or Win 7 FR using GPO, I don't know why but you need to tick "Ingore language when deploying this package" in the advanc… Read More
For patch 9.3.3 I found I had to create an Admin Point: msiexec /a [path]\AcroRead.msi Then slipstream the 9.3.2 patch, and finally slipstream the 9.3.3 patch. msiexec /a [path]\AcroRead.ms… Read More
To update MSI with MSP file, and apply Customization directly to the MSI: 1) Install Adobe Customization Wizard 9.0. 2) Install Orca. 3) Apply Patch to MSI file using the following from a Comm… Read More
Adobe started to provide Updates over a new Mechanism. To disable AutoUpdate you have to delete Adobe ARM from Autostart: Delete following String: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows… Read More
Adobe Reader 9.3.1 was causing several installs in my SCCM OSD task sequence to fail. This did not happen with Adobe Reader 8.2.0 I found that I needed to reboot after installing Reader if R… Read More
Adobe have released 9.3.1, to update your Admin install from 9.3 to 9.3.1 run the command: msiexec /a AcroRead.msi /p AdbeRdrUpd931_all_incr.msp A full guide for the upgrade (and the deployme… Read More
You can also slipstream all updates, but note that not all updates should be slipstreamed. Adobe has 2 types of updates, quarterly and security updates. Only quarterly updates should be slips… Read More
For the "Adobe Reader Display In Browser" issue that has been plaguing many people out there, we have been pounding on Adobe to get a solution. After months, we finally did. First off, you mus… Read More
For the "Adobe Reader Display In Browser" issue that has been plaguing many people out there, we have been pounding on Adobe to get a solution. After months, we finally did. First off, you mus… Read More
