On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Jim Dandy <[email protected]> wrote: > Is anyone pushing Acrobat with Group Policy? If so, does it work well?
We are pushing Adobe Reader 8 via GPO. It works as well as anything Adobe does. We use the "Adobe Customization Wizard" or whatever it's called to make some changes. For example, we disable the view-in-browser functionality, and lock down execution of scripts and external files and such. The result transform has to be added as a "Modification" to the GPO, using "Advanced publish or install". Upgrades are done by adding the new MSI package file to the GPO, and letting it upgrade the existing package. So it does an uninstall-then-install-new. Takes some time, but works well (so far). We had to write a script to install the language packs. They don't seem to install properly using GPO. (They show up in "Add/Remove Programs" on the target machines, they just don't work.) Acrobat proper (the payware PDF editor product) we can't do using GPO because it requires a serial number and activation. Adobe is as bad as Microsoft for this. Grrr. We do at least have a script and a transform that makes the manual install as easy as possible. Fortunately, the free PDFCreator is good enough for what most people need. :-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
