Unattended : Foxit Reader for Terminal Server

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Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 has become very big, slow, memory consuming and a lot of users are experiencing problems with Roaming Profiles and AppData in the Terminal Server Environment. So I decided to make a script for installing the Foxit Reader.

First of all you have to download Foxit Reader 3.0 and save it to your Source catalog. I have also made a custom Foxit Reader package that you’ll find in the Core Application. This takes away Automatic Update and removes Advertisement and a Registry file that makes it your default PDF Viewer. The registry file also contains a HKCU settings which could be implemented with Group Policy Settings Reference.

Here is an example of an unattended script :

@echo off
REM Install Foxit Reader 3.0
REM ScriptFrameWork by Joe Shonk - www.theshonkproject.com
REM Customized by Trond Eirik Haavarstein - www.xenappblog.com

pushd %~dp0
cd ..

set AppSourcePath=Source
set AppConfigPath=Configuration
set AppInstallPath=Scripts
set AppHotfixesPath=Hotfixes
set LogFile="%temp%Foxit Reader 3.0.log"
set Switches=/qn ALLUSERS=1 REBOOT="ReallySuppress"

cls
echo.
echo Installing Foxit Reader 3.0
echo.

cd %AppSourcePath%

start /wait msiexec /i "FoxitReader30_enu.msi" %Switches% /liewa %LOGFILE%
xcopy "FoxitReader_Preferences.ini" "%ProgramFiles%Foxit SoftwareFoxit Reader" /Y /Q

cd..
cd %AppConfigPath%
regedit /s "Config.reg"

popd
endlocal

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