I’m sure there are some just around the corner like the Adobe Download Manager bug.Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat are the two most popular PDF viewers developed and distributed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Up next after that is the next Adobe security updates.
Currently because it’s not standard software, we ask the users to do the updates. Up next is writing a script to install Acrobat patches for the users. I was able to run the Adobe Acrobat 8 setup.exe and install the current 8.2.1 version. Once I downloaded the setup.exe linked in that TechNote, it worked. “Install all Acrobat 8 patches in one step with Adobe Bootstrapper and patch sequencing”. Apparently the Adobe Bootstraper (setup.exe) in my 8.1 CD was customized. Guess what, it didn’t work! After trying many different things, I stumbled across another technote. So I sat down to recreate what I did for Acrobat 9. While there was very little Adobe Reader 8 (so I can skip that), we actually have more Adobe Acrobat 8 installed than Acrobat 9. And when we upgrade Adobe Reader, it will be a lot easier for the users. That is the version of the original install files. Now my helpdesk when they install Adobe Acrobat 9 wont accidentally leave the user with the 9.0.0. PATCH=AcroProStdUpd910_T1T2_incr.msp AcrobatUpd912_all_incr.msp AcrobatUpd913_all_incr.msp You just add the list of patches to the product section. This article has you list the patches in setup.ini. The same problem exists in that if they run the MSI instead not only do they not get the custom config (MST), now they miss the patches. Users installing from the file server can just run the same setup.EXE they always have rather than running a bat file.
No mistakes with quotes in the command-line. “Install Acrobat 9 and all patches in one step with Adobe Bootstrapper (Setup.exe) and patch sequencing”. So after I did that for Reader and Acrobat 9, and tested it all out, I found another Adobe TechNote. So I went to town, stringing together the path to all the MSP updates. Msiexec.exe /i “\AcroPro.msi” PATCH=”\AcroProStdUpd910_T1T2_incr.msp AcrobatUpd912_all_incr.msp TRANSFORMS=”1036.mst” If you’ve used MSPs before you’re probably already familiar with how to do this. So I searched and found an Adobe TechNote on deploying Adobe Acrobat and quarterly updates in one install. That sort of thing sets user revolt in motion. I really didn’t want them to install 9.3 then have 9.3.1 install immediately after that. So what to do about the users that hadn’t installed 9.3 yet. Adobe Reader 9.3.1 is a msp file that can only be applied to Adobe Reader 9.3.
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