Oh, and know that PDF viewing in browsers is broken if you install or deploy Reader or Acrobat by MSI. You can disable this feature in the customization tool, or apply the following registry tweaks to the transform file you create. Windows 64bit will require a separate MST due to the path for Program Files being different:
Reader x86: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\DefaultIcon] @="C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\shell\open\command] @="\"c:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\" /u \"%1\"" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\"" Reader x64: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\DefaultIcon] @="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\shell\open\command] @="\"c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\" /u \"%1\"" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe] @="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Reader 9.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe\"" Acrobat x86: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\DefaultIcon] @="C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 9.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe\" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\shell\open\command] @="\"c:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 9.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe\" /u \"%1\"" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 9.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe\"" Acrobat x64: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\DefaultIcon] @="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Acrobat 9.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe\" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\acrobat\shell\open\command] @="\"c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Acrobat 9.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe\" /u \"%1\"" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat\Exe] @="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Acrobat 9.0\\Acrobat\\Acrobat.exe\"" If you want my MST ping me offlist. I just removed what most people here would complain about and applied the above registry tweaks. You can open it in the customization tool and make adjustments still. -- Mike Gill From: Mike Gill [mailto:lis...@canbyfoursquare.com] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe acrobat reader updates Just to be extra helpful the tool he's referring to is here: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3993 Among to tweaks you can do to Reader, one of them is to remove previous versions if they are found automatically. This will extract the MSI needed for an administrative install to the folder Reader9.4 w/o running setup.exe: AdbeRdr940_en_US.exe -nos_o"Reader9.4" -nos_ne Now you can create an administrative install point for deployment and customize (create the MST) using the tool above. -- Mike Gill From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 5:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Adobe acrobat reader updates You should find you can deploy the MSI via Group Policy and it'll take care of everything for you. Take a look at the Adobe Customization Tool as well as you can disable things like checking for updates. From: Brumbaugh, Luke [mailto:luke.brumba...@butlerschein.com] Sent: 28 October 2010 13:01 To: NT System Admin Issues Cc: Miller, Bob Subject: Adobe acrobat reader updates I have been tasks by the head company to update adobe reader etc. I am reading remove all old versions, then install new. Updates are by default downloaded. 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