Unattended : Adobe Acrobat Reader 9
By Trond Eirik Haavarstein 04/07/2008 – 11:51The new version of Adobe Reader is out and it’s supposed to be faster and better. Though the integrated Shockwave & FlashPlayer will be interesting in a Terminal Server Environment.
I’ve created a script for silent installation :
@ECHO OFF
REM Install Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0
REM Written by Trond Eirik Haavarstein
pushd %~dp0
cd ..
set AppSourcePath=%CD%\Source
set AppConfigPath=%CD%\Configuration
set AppInstallPath=%CD%\Scripts
set AppHotfixesPath=%CD%\Hotfixes
set LogFile1=”%temp%\AcrobatReader90.log”
set Switches=/qn ALLUSERS=1 REBOOT=”ReallySuppress”
set MST=TRANSFORMS=1044.mst
cls
echo.
echo Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0
echo.
cd %AppSourcePath%
start /wait msiexec /i “AcroRead.msi” %mst% %switches% /liewa %LOGFILE1%
REG ADD “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\AdobeViewer” /V EULA /t REG_DWORD /d “00000001″ /f
REG ADD “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\AdobeViewer” /V Launched /t REG_DWORD /d “00000001″ /f
REG ADD “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown” /v bUpdater /d 0 /t REG_DWORD /f
popd
endlocal






6 Responses to “Unattended : Adobe Acrobat Reader 9”
Good post.
By Fondea on Oct 27, 2008
Does this fix the problem of running Adobe 9 on a Citrix server with roaming profiles turned on?
Thanks
Dan
By Dan on Nov 13, 2008
There is no problems that I’m aware of running Adobe 9 in Terminal Server environement with romaing proiles. But ofcourse it depends on your romaing profiles settings.
By admin on Nov 16, 2008
The issue with Adobe 9 isn’t due to roaming profiles, it’s due to folder redirection on AppData and yes it’s still a problem.
Shawn
By Shawn Bass on Dec 28, 2008
We don’t redirect APP data, though we do redirect other folders (documents, desktop, etc). However, Windows Server 2008 (TS) does use a UNC on the appdata path and thus causes the same problem. No fix yet for this that I’ve found (other than some scripts to change appdata to a drive letter instead of a UNC).
By Corbett on Feb 4, 2009
In case anyone comes across this post, the %AppData% redirection problem was fixed in subsequent versions of Adobe Reader 9.0. Upgrade to 9.1.x and you should have no problems.
Cheers.
Tu
By Tu Nguyen on Aug 2, 2009