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October 3, 2022
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Group Policy Settings not applying to Internet Explorer Emedded Adobe Reader

  • October 3, 2022
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Hi,

We're trying to configure some policies to prevent the pop-up box that appears when opening links inside a PDF file, see image:

 

 

We've achieved this by setting registry values to disable `Preferences > Security (Enhanced) > Enable Protected Mode at startup` and adding the local file path to the list of Trusted sites also inside Security (Enchanced):

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\Privileged]
"bEnableProtectedModeAppContainer"=dword:00000000
"bProtectedMode"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cAlwaysTrustedForJavaScript]
"t9"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cCrossdomain]
"t3"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cDataInjection]
"t7"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cExternalStream]
"t4"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cFileAttachment]
"t12"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cJavaScript]
"t5"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cJavaScriptURL]
"t10"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cMultiMedia]
"t11"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cScriptInjection]
"t6"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cSilentPrint]
"t1"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cTrustedAuxDownload]
"t14"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cTrustedFor3D]
"t15"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cTrustedForPV]
"t13"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cUnsafeJavaScript]
"t8"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\TrustManager\cTrustedFolders\cWeblink]
"t2"="c:\\<Local File Path>"

 

This works great if I open the PDF file normally within Adobe Reader DC, however our application is opening the PDF files inside an Embedded Internet Explorer window which is then opening the embedded Adobe Reader DC and this is still giving me the security message, how can I make the embedded Adobe Reader use my registry settings?

 

Thanks

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Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 3, 2022

Are you confident that you are using Adobe Acrobat Reader and not the embedded PDF reader?

 

(I'm moving this from the Enterprise & Teams forum to the Acrobat Reader forum.)

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
HugoExceptOnFire
Participant
October 4, 2022

Thanks for moving it
Do you mean the Internet Explorer embedded PDF reader? If it was using that then I wouldn't be getting the Adobe Reader error message, I can also see the controls with the Adobe Logo etc:

 

 

 

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 4, 2022

Thanks for answering that question. Sometimes users confound the internal viewer with Acrobat, and they don't understand the difference. Now we need to wait for a specialist to move in.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer