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Creating the Administrative Install Point:
1. Download and install WinRAR
2. Download and install Adobe Customisation Wizard X
3. If you have not signed up to the “Adobe Runtimes / Reader Distribution License Agreement” I suggest you do so, if you have the Admin Distribution Link skip to step 4.
You can sign up here
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/distribution.html
4. Depending on what you have signedAC up for Adobe will then email you a link to download the administrative versions of Flash, Adobe Reader, Shockwave and AIR.
5. Using the link download the Adobe Reader Administrator Distribution package into ‘C:\AdobeReaderDownloads’
6. Under ‘C:\AdobeReaderDownloads’, Right Click on ‘AdbeRdr1013_en_US.exe’ and click ‘Extract Here…’ with WinRAR
7. After this has completed create ‘AIP.bat’ file by right clicking in the right hand explorer pane, ‘New – Text Document’ and change the name as well as the extention to ‘AIP.bat’
8. Right Click on ‘AIP.bat’ and click ‘Edit’.
9. Add this into the file and then ‘File-Save’ (you can remove the pauses if you want to):
msiexec /a C:\AdobeReaderDownloads\AcroRead.msipause
msiexec /a C:\AIP\AcroRead.msi /p C:\AdobeReaderDownloads\AdbeRdrUpd1013.msppause
10. Close Notepad and run ‘AIP.bat’ with administrative rights. (right click ‘run with administrative rights)
11. When the install dialogues prompt for a location, install to ‘C:\AIP’. This slipstreams the update into the actual ‘AcroRead.msi’ creating a new one with the new patch applied. Sadly, you do end up with having four folders and an .msi. It’s just how it is.
12. Copy ‘setup.ini’ from ‘C:\AdobeReaderDownloads’ to ‘C:\AIP’ OR create a text file and save in ‘C:\AIP’ as ‘setup.ini’:
INSTRUCTIONS:
[Startup]
RequireOS=Windows 2000
RequireMSI=3.0
RequireIE=6.0.2600.0
[Product]
msi=AcroRead.msi
[Windows 2000]
PlatformID=2
MajorVersion=5
ServicePackMajor=4
[MSI Updater]
Path=WindowsInstaller-KB893803-v2-x86.exe
13. Run Adobe Customisation Wizard X
14. File – Copy Package
15. In the pop up dialogue
> The existing source package is located at: ‘C:\AIP\AcroRead.msi’
> Specify a Name for your package I went with ‘AcroRead’
> Where it is to be copied to: C:\AdobeReaderTransform
16. Click OK and wait for it to copy.
17. Go through the Left hand panel enter in the personalisation you want whether you want to disable looking for updates, silent installation and suppressed rebooting, EULA e.t.c
18. Once done Click File – Save Package.
This will have generated AcroRead.mst and updated your setup.ini file to enable silent install and more if selected. Close the Customisation Wizard. You can come back to your package at any time by opening up ‘AcroRead.msi’ under ‘C:\AdobeReaderTransform\yourNameOfPackage\’ make your edits and save again.
19. Copy the ‘yourNameOfPackage’ folder from C:\AcrobatTransform\ to your server share
20. Open up Group Policy Management MMC
21. Go to the Organisational Unit that you want to apply software to
22. Right click on the OU and select ‘Create a GPO in this Domain, and link it here…’
23. Write your GPO name mine was “Software – Adobe Reader 10.1.3” Click OK
24. Right Click on GPO, Click Edit
25. Drill down “Computer Configuration – Policies – Software Settings – Software Installations”
26. Right click “Software Installations”
27. Click ‘New – Package’
28. Browse to your server share of ‘yourNameOfPackage’ Click Open
29. Select Deployment Method: Advanced
a. Under General Tab - Change the name if you want to
b. Under Deployment Tab – Change whether you want the application to uninstall off computers when you remove the GPO
c. Under Upgrades Tab - You can choose GPO’s which this can upgrade over. For example older versions of Acrobat and also gives you the ability to either uninstall then install the new product or just do an upgrade.
30. Click Modifications Tab
31. Click Add…
32. Browse to your ‘yourNameOfPackage’ folder on the server share and select your ‘yourNameOf.MST’ file.
33. Click Open
34. Click Ok
35. Exit out of Group Policy Management, restart the computers and enjoy!
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Wonderful. You have mentioned the complete download instructions. I will do try all these steps to download this software. I am grateful to you for helping first time users.
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