Adobe Reader installation - anyone with a neat installation guide?

[Stian Langsrud]

Hi.
Has anyone here a pretty neat installation guide for Adobe Reader for App Volumes 4?
I know there are several guides out there, with registry settings etc from here to the eternity.
I have tried some of them, but still I'm struggling with an installation that works perfect for end users.

[Jeremy Lippert]

There are plenty of ways to package Reader, here are just some things we do.

We utilize Adobe's customization wizard to make a Transforms .mst file with all of our settings that we want set. Things like killing off the updater, getting rid of welcome screens, etc.

Here are some of the things we do in the Transforms file to set for our users. Yours may vary.

Transforms File Creation
    Download tool— Acrobat Customization Wizard for Windows (adobe.com)
    
    Personalization:
        Suppress display of End User License Agreenment (EULA) - check this box
        
    Installation Options:
        Select Make Reader the Default PDF Viewer
        Set Run Installation to Unattended
        Select Suppress Reboot
        
    Registry:
        Add the following keys and values:
            HKLM\Software\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\FeatureLockDown\cWelcomeScreen
                bShowWelcomeScreen REG_DWORD value=0
            HKLM\Software\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\FeatureLockDown
                bToggleFTE REG_DWORD value=1
            HKLM\Software\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\FeatureLockDown
                bUpdater REG_DWORD value=0
            HKLM\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\Installer
                ENABLE_CHROMEEXT REG_BINARY value=1
    
    Shortcuts:
        Right click on Acrobat Reader DC under Desktop and select Remove
        
    Online Services and Features:
        Check Disable Product Updates
        Check Disable Upsell
        
Select Transform menu, Generate Transform.

 

Initial Installation:

We download Adobe Reader from Adobe - Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Distribution and extract the .msi using something like 7zip to utilize for the Transforms .mst creation as well as the installation in App Volumes Packaging.

 

Install during packaging of App Volumes is simple once you have the transform file created, simple as:

 msiexec.exe /i AcroRead.msi TRANSFORMS=AcroReadtransform.mst

We also stop and disable the Adobe Update Service after packaging as well. Just in case.

 

Updates:

Download.msp update files when needing to update the package in packaging - https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/release-note/release-notes-acrobat-reader.html

Simple as running the latest .msp in packaging and then stop and disable Adobe Update service

 

We do pretty much all of these same things for both Adobe Reader as well as Adobe Acrobat. Hope this helps a little

[hans straat]

Also mind that you remove the Scheduled Task for adobe update task 🙂 before sealing package or image.