What about rebooting the users in the evening and deploying the install after the reboot?
Would sending out an install disc to your remote folks be a valid solution? Jimmy From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 6:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Acrobat X standard Now that you mention it, it was cut & paste and the quotes I had was the wrong kind! So here's my next issue - for the install to work users need to have their browser closed as well as any Office applications - would GPO be the best way to deploy this one? I would really like to avoid user interaction. * Plan B is to have users leave their systems on overnight and try and handle it that way. * Plan C is have the users run a batch file. Anyone have an idea I'm overlooking? We have about 205 users needing upgraded from Acrobat 8 to Acrobat X. At least 30 of them are remote folks who VPN in. Dave From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 1:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Acrobat X Std upgrade via customization wizard. GRRR If your command line was cut&paste, you had some extra spaces around your Z:\'s -- Mike Gill From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Acrobat X Std upgrade via customization wizard. GRRR Weird. Dunno what I was doing wrong but I did finally get it to work. Dave From: James Hill [mailto:falc...@gmail.com] <mailto:[mailto:falcc41@gmailcom]> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Acrobat X Std upgrade via customization wizard. GRRR I just set all the options in the wizard and then run the exe(or is it an msi, I forget) it creates without any cmd line switches. Works every time. From: David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org] Sent: Friday, 16 December 2011 4:37 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Acrobat X Std upgrade via customization wizard. GRRR Since Acrobat 8 is no longer being patched I am trying to get version X rolled out. I have used the customization wizard but can't seem to get it to apply. The tool creates an .MST (Transforms) file, but I can't get it to work - it acts as if the MST file doesn't exist. In fact when I specify the transforms file it asks more questions than when I don't use it. My command line: msiexec /i "Z:\ Adobe Acrobat X Pro\AdminInstallPoint\AcroPro.msi" TRANSFORMS=" Z:\ Adobe Acrobat X Pro\AdminInstallPoint\AcroPro.mst" It asks all sorts of Q's like "do you want to remove the previous version?". If I don't specify a transforms file I can get it to install and it removes the old version fine, but it doesn't take any of the settings I used in the customization wizard. If I open that .MSI with Adobe's Customization Wizard it shows the options I've selected (the tools title even shows "AcroPro.msi transformed by AcroPro.mst"). Surely it's something very simple. Anyone? David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
