License: A distribution license is required for organizations to distribute Adobe Reader, you can apply here: https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat/pdf-reader/volume-distribution.html
Requirements: Adobe Acrobat Customization Wizard download here: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Wizard/index.html
Note: The Adobe Acrobat Customization Wizard is required, using a traditional MSI editor like Orca is unsupported by Adobe
Patch Repository: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub or https://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/
Package Creation:
All the .EXE files from the above directory can be extracted. I use 7-Zip to do this.
Create an administrative install directory with 2 sub-directories, one for the Administrative install and one for housing the installer files. For my demonstration, I will call the Administrative installation point AIP and the installer directory Installer. For this example, I will place both in the root of the C drive in a folder called C:\AdobeReader.
- Open a command prompt window, run as an administrator
- We will preform an administrative installation of the Adobe Reader program as a quiet install with a progress bar: msiexe.exe /a C:\AdobeReader\Install\acroread.msi /qb TARGETDIR=C:\AdobeReader\AIP
- We will copy setup.ini into the AIP directory: copy c:\AdobeReader\Install\setup.ini c:\AdobeReader\AIP
- We will patch our administrative install with the current patch as a quiet install and a progress bar: msiexec.exe /a C:\AdobeReader\AIP\acroread.msi /qb /p c:\AdobeReader\Install\AcroRdr<patchnumber>.msp
We will open up Adobe Acrobat Customization Wizard to configure a transform file. Open the MSI file in your AIP directory.
- Recommend to run the installation Silently (no interface)
- Recommend checking Supress display for EULA
- Recommend to suppress reboot
- Recommend checking remove all versions of Adobe Reader as we are replacing them with this install - this has been hit or miss though
- Recommend Making Adobe Reader default - no longer supported on Windows 10, admins will need to find another way to make this default
- Consider patching manually and disabling auto-updates or not
- You may need to make registry changes, file changes or installer changes as needed. You will need to understand the changes you are making and it will need to depend on what you are doing.
When we have a working installer, we can place this in our Digital Software Library and create an SCCM application to push this out.
SCCM Application:
Coming soon