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Acrobat Reader XI addon gets disabled periodically in Internet Explorer within Windows domain

We have a followig problem that happens on new workstations with Windows 7 x64 and Acrobat Reader XI only. Every few days the following key is automatically added to…
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Windows 7 Permissions for installing Adobe Reader and Flash Updates?

Is it possible to give users the permissions in a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain to install Adobe Reader and Flash Updates on their Windows 7 machines? Or are they just stuck with calling on the administrator to install them all the time?
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How do I force SCCM to reinstall an application I've already deployed?

I recently used the Adobe Customization Wizard to create a custom transforms (.mst) file for the latest version of Acrobat Reader DC and deployed it to our network. Today I discovered that the customizations are blocking Sharepoint documents on our…
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Adobe Reader 10.1.4 msi for Group Policy Deployment

I need a self contained msi file to put in the SYSVOL folder so I can roll it out via Group Policy. I have seen various instructions of how to do this (e.g. http://www.itninja.com/blog/view/reader-x-10-1-3-mui - steps 1-5) which all seem to give the…
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Remotely update Adobe Reader on Mac OS X from terminal

I want to update Adobe Reader remotely on a Mac through the terminal. Flash Player had a .pkg file in the .dmg, so installing that wasn't difficult. There is no .pkg file in Adobe Reader updates. Does any one have a handy method for performing…
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Adobe Reader hangs on Citrix

Symptoms: The user cannot open new PDF's. When we look on the TS process list, we can see multiple acrord32.exe's, one for each attempt to open a PDF after the hang occurs. The user/Citrix Control Panel can not see the process. After a while an…
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Adobe Acrobat Sqlite errors with Mac OS X network accounts

We have set up network accounts for our Snow Leopard Users on several Macs, which work great except for applications that use a local Sqlite database for their preferences/cache. The biggest problem being Acrobat reader which launches and crashes…
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Issues with setting "Make Reader the default PDF viewer" with Adobe Reader XI

I do a silent deployment of Adobe Reader XI and the setup doesn't set Adobe Reader as default PDF Reader. I can set the default Reader manually but it has to be done automatically. I tried: msiexec /i "AcroRead.msi" /q…
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Adobe Reader - How to disable automatic updates on a computer that is offline?

I have a computer at a location that is currently without internet service. I just did a fresh install of XP SP3 and am in the process of loading basic software that will be required later. Among the software I loaded is Adobe Reader 9.1. I…
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Enterprise Version Inventory for Adobe Reader 7,8,9,10

Is there a tool or method to build an inventory of the version of Adobe Reader installed on computers in a domain? This would allow specific targeting of Adobe Reader updates to the computers who needed it, say from version 9 to version 10. If I…
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'IE cannot display the webpage' when opening PDFs

A number of my users are complaining ever since an upgrade to IE9 that when they click a PDF link, IE gives the error 'Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage' (ie doesn't even call Acrobat Reader add-in). I can view the PDFs just find in…
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Recommended PDF Reader for Windows Terminal Server Environment

Right now, I have Adobe Reader 9.0.0 installed on my Win 2003 Terminal Server. Before I just go ahead and update it to version 9.4, does anyone have an experience with a better PDF Reader for a terminal server environment? It does not perform…
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Can GPO grey out (not disable) "Enable Javascript" option?

I understand GPO can be used to disable or enable "Enable Javascript" option in Acrobat Reader. However, is there a way we can grey it out so that user cannot fiddle with it? Thanks in advance.
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Server 2012 - Computer GPO, scoped to user group?

I'm having an issue with server 2012 and setting default file type for a subset of users. I currently have a file type association XML file placed into my Domain Controller's sysvol, and it's called by a computer GPO to open PDFs with Adobe Acrobat…
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Why doesn't Reader DC send a printjob to a shared printer in a terminal server environment?

I'm experiencing a very odd issue. We work in a terminal environment using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and printers that are shared on a print server and pushed to users in the Terminal Servers using a GPO. Sometimes a user experiences an issue where…
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