Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 Silent Install

Paul Cunningham — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:07:12 +0000

Note: Aaron has posted that Adobe has released the customisation wizard for Acrobat Reader 9 and has updated his excellent post on deploying Acrobat Reader 9 with this new information.

Instructions

To perform a silent install of Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0, follow these steps:

1. Download the install file from Adobe here .

2. Run the installer, and wait until the setup dialog appears asking you for a destination folder to install to.

3. Leave that dialog open, and in Windows Explorer navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\usernamel\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Setup Files\READER9 . This contains the extracted setup files you will need for silent installs.

4. Copy the files to another location, and cancel the open dialog box.

5. Now to perform a silent install using whatever deployment tool you wish (eg GPO, SMS, SCCM, SCE) you simply execute the MSI with the usual "quiet" switches, eg…

msiexec /qb /i AcroRead.msi

ADM Template for Acrobat Reader 9

If you’re performing a deployment to a business network you might find this ADM handy. It lets you control three behaviours of Reader 9 for which I find the default settings annoying:

automatic updates
EULA on first run
browser integration

Download it here: (link removed, see below) (7296 downloads)

Note: Aaron has created a much more comprehensive ADM that you can download over at his site.

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Adobe Flash Player Download Links

Paul Cunningham — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:40:36 +0000

Aaron runs a great blog but I’m quite amazed that Adobe is actually telling customers to look there for basic information like download links for their software.

I’ve had a few e-mails over the past few weeks, from people looking for the Adobe Flash Player installer, because Adobe tech support has been directing people here for links to download the latest version of Flash (9.0.47.0 as of this post).

Each time tech support has been giving them an incorrect URL, so I thought it might be useful to post the download links again. Hi Mr Adobe Tech Support, if you’re reading this.

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