What OS are they running? If they are running Win7 Ultimate/Enterprise, you can set them up (after a fair amount of work) with DA/UAG.
Otherwise, it might be possible that the VPN they're using has a facility to run a script after login. Since I don't yet have DA/UAG set up, I'm using the latter alternative with our Aventail SSL VPN unit. Kurt On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 06:43, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that you mention it, it was cut & paste and the quotes I had was the > wrong kind! > > > > So here’s my next issue – for the install to work users need to have their > browser closed as well as any Office applications – would GPO be the best > way to deploy this one? I would really like to avoid user interaction. > > · Plan B is to have users leave their systems on overnight and try > and handle it that way. > > · Plan C is have the users run a batch file. > > > > Anyone have an idea I’m overlooking? We have about 205 users needing > upgraded from Acrobat 8 to Acrobat X. At least 30 of them are remote folks > who VPN in. > > > > Dave > > > > From: Mike Gill [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 1:27 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Acrobat X Std upgrade via customization wizard. GRRR > > > > If your command line was cut&paste, you had some extra spaces around your > Z:\’s > > > > -- > Mike Gill > > > > From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:58 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Acrobat X Std upgrade via customization wizard. GRRR > > > > Weird. Dunno what I was doing wrong but I did finally get it to work. > > > > Dave > > > > From: James Hill [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:30 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Acrobat X Std upgrade via customization wizard. GRRR > > > > I just set all the options in the wizard and then run the exe(or is it an > msi, I forget) it creates without any cmd line switches. Works every time. > > > > > > > > From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, 16 December 2011 4:37 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Acrobat X Std upgrade via customization wizard. GRRR > > > > Since Acrobat 8 is no longer being patched I am trying to get version X > rolled out. I have used the customization wizard but can’t seem to get it to > apply. > > > > The tool creates an .MST (Transforms) file, but I can’t get it to work – it > acts as if the MST file doesn’t exist. In fact when I specify the transforms > file it asks more questions than when I don’t use it. > > > > My command line: > msiexec /i "Z:\ Adobe Acrobat X Pro\AdminInstallPoint\AcroPro.msi" > TRANSFORMS=" Z:\ Adobe Acrobat X Pro\AdminInstallPoint\AcroPro.mst" > > > > It asks all sorts of Q’s like “do you want to remove the previous version?”. > If I don’t specify a transforms file I can get it to install and it removes > the old version fine, but it doesn’t take any of the settings I used in the > customization wizard. If I open that .MSI with Adobe’s Customization Wizard > it shows the options I’ve selected (the tools title even shows “AcroPro.msi > transformed by AcroPro.mst”). > > > > Surely it’s something very simple. 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