Comments on: Install Adobe Reader 9.1.1 across the network

By: admin

admin — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:36:22 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Tai!

By: Tai

Tai — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:26:49 +0000

Found my answer – use /passive with TARGETDIR=C:\Acro9aip

By: Tai

Tai — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:45:02 +0000

I am trying to make a script that applies a number of MSP (about 8!) as painlessly as possible…

The main thing that is preventing me from doing this is: every time you run the MSP against the MSI AIP, you are asked to specify the network location again…

Running using /passive causes the installer to hang on the “gathering information” step. Anyone know how to work around this…?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:31:04 +0000

Welcome to IT. With Adobe, nothing is that simple.

By: Jeff Alan

Jeff Alan — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:29:06 +0000

This is insane. Why doesn’t Adobe just release a true silent and full install like most everyone else does and make all of this crap not necessary. It doesn’t have to be made this involved.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:00:47 +0000

I was referring to the file, setup.ini, that needs to exist for the Customization wizard, not the MSI file.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:57:33 +0000

Modify the MSI in the network location. Everything is in the order of the steps I took. This is for silent installation, etc.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:49:54 +0000

Here’s what I did so far
1)Downloaded AdbeRdr910_en_US.exe and extracted it to a local drive (InstallFiles)
2)Performed the administrative extraction (msiexec /a) to a network drive
3)Applied the update (msiexec /p) to the network drive’s msi file (updated to 9.1.3)

Here’s where I’m confused, which MSI file should I be running the Adobe Customize Wizard against, the one in InstallFile (orginal extraction without MSP update) or the one on the Network drive (with latest MSP update)?

By: Gerry

Gerry — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:29:31 +0000

I’m trying to push Adobe via SMS 2003. I’ve tied falling these steps but I’m a little confused. At the end, after we do the Adobe customize wizard, you say copy the msi file from the installfiles directory up to a network location, then copy the msp from the updater we created. At what step did we create the updater? Also, what was the purpose of performing an administrative extraction to a network install if we’re using the orginal from the adberdr910_en_us.exe file? I’m just curious because I can’t get mine to work, so far, so I’m back at creating the custom install again….Thanks

By: Nori

Nori — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:45:08 +0000

@ Dave:
I had the same problem. I fixed it by downloading instedit from http://www.instedit.com and used it to drop rows from the tables. it worked like a charm.

@Admin
Thank you for your help.