Unattended : Adobe Acrobat Reader 9

By Trond Eirik Haavarstein 04/07/2008 – 11:51

adobe acrobat 9 300x90 Unattended : Adobe Acrobat Reader 9

The 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

  1. 6 Responses to “Unattended : Adobe Acrobat Reader 9”

  2. Good post.

    By Fondea on Oct 27, 2008

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

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