FYI for planning... The extracted Acrobat X installer (MSI, Cabs) for GPOs is about 330MB.
-----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 11:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Acrobat X standard So, does your VPN solution support running a script after login? Kurt On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 07:32, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > Win XP. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 7:25 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Acrobat X standard > > 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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