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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Thanks very much for your entry. Foxit updates were annoying for some of our 30 terminal services users.
thanks again.