this is what I did: Downloaded .exe from Adobe-ftp successfully extracted with “AdbeRdr11010_de_DE.exe” -nos_ne ‘slipstreamed’ the .msp into the .msi with klaus-hartnegg’s tool made a .mst with Adobe Customization Wizard moved the whole folder to network share I set the permissions of the folder for the computers to read and execute made a computer-configuration-gpo (sorry … Read more
I’ve configured a Group Policy Object to install Adobe Reader X, but one machine keeps uninstalling the package on start-up – even if it is installed manually. This one machine also doesn’t show Reader as an installable app in Add/Remove programs. Answer Remove the computer from the GPO. Manually uninstall (remove registry entries and related … Read more
In Adobe Reader 10.x there is an option under Edit>Preferences…>3D & Multimedia to set the renderer to use the software renderer instead of Directx. I’ve read that using the software setting will garner better performance. I’m looking for a way to set this via registry or gpo – domain wide. Does anyone know how to … Read more
I have Adobe Reader 9 installed onto the local hard drives of my workstations. The application launches from local user accounts and functions as expected. When users are logged in with a network user account Adobe Reader unexpectedly quits at launch. I have laptops that are enabled with Mobile Sync that launch Adobe Reader without … Read more
I have a computer at a location that is currently without internet service. I just did a fresh install of XP SP3 and am in the process of loading basic software that will be required later. Among the software I loaded is Adobe Reader 9.1. I always disable automatic update checking for every program I … Read more
Right now, I have Adobe Reader 9.0.0 installed on my Win 2003 Terminal Server. Before I just go ahead and update it to version 9.4, does anyone have an experience with a better PDF Reader for a terminal server environment? It does not perform poorly now, but I am worried that the update might cause … Read more
Is there a tool or method to build an inventory of the version of Adobe Reader installed on computers in a domain? This would allow specific targeting of Adobe Reader updates to the computers who needed it, say from version 9 to version 10. If I deployed an Adobe Reader X MSI to all computers, … Read more
A number of my users are complaining ever since an upgrade to IE9 that when they click a PDF link, IE gives the error ‘Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage’ (ie doesn’t even call Acrobat Reader add-in). I can view the PDFs just find in Chrome, I can download the PDFs and open them with … Read more
Symptoms: The user cannot open new PDF’s. When we look on the TS process list, we can see multiple acrord32.exe’s, one for each attempt to open a PDF after the hang occurs. The user/Citrix Control Panel can not see the process. After a while an error saying referring to the DDE service may pop up, … Read more
I recently used the Adobe Customization Wizard to create a custom transforms (.mst) file for the latest version of Acrobat Reader DC and deployed it to our network. Today I discovered that the customizations are blocking Sharepoint documents on our own intranet from opening. It was a single checkbox I had clicked by mistake. I … Read more
