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fboterblom
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March 15, 2011
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Acrobat 9 standard deployment always Italian

  • March 15, 2011
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Hello,

First of all, this is the most worst deployment system i have ever seen.

The AIP or Bootstrap way; why is there not one total update why do i need to install about 5 patches to get to the latest update?

This way the total installation time for the installation is going to be very long.

I need to deploy Acrobat 9 standard to clients using MDT 2010.

I try to use the msi with an .mst file: msiexec /L*v c:\Log.txt /i AcroStan.msi TRANSFORM="AcroStan.mst" /q

It does not install anything and the log file is in Italian. When i run the installation without /q (silent) i get a Italian interface.

Within the setup.ini and within the AcroStan.mst i have dutch selected using Adobe Customization Wizard 9.

When i run the setp.exe i will get dutch interface, just the way i wanted.

Probally i am doing something wrong

I intend to deploy several single licenses installation on several clients, so i need to make different .mst files with the different product keys in it.

Otherwise i would have used the setup.exe to deploy and i do not want to have 5 copies of the installation of Acrobat 9.

Anyone who can help me?

Regards,

Francis

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EnterpriseHelp
EnterpriseHelp
Inspiring
March 15, 2011

Hi Francis,

Any deployment method simply involves putting any needed update installers in a single dir and chaining them together. Both AIP and bootstrapper work. You don't need the wizard to preserialize the licenses or select the language. Download the admin guide and see if that helps:  http://www.adobe.com/go/acrobatitinfo.

Perhaps you could restate your problem if this info doesn't help.

Ben

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fboterblomAuthor
Participant
March 16, 2011

Hi Broqers 1,

I have read the documentation and followed the chapter about the Administrative Installation Point. I have now patched my installation to version 9.43.

After that i made a .mst file using the wizard, for pproductkey, username, language (dutch) and automatic updates (off). At our deployment system (mdt2010) i execute the msiexec method like this: msiexec /i AcroStan.msi TRANSFORM="AcroStan.mst" /qn.  It give me an error so i manually typed the msiexec command into a command box: msiexec /live c:\logadobe.txt /i AcroStan.msi TRANSFORM="AcroStan.mst" /qf.

I will get a log but parts are written in Italian language (the most important parts..) So i can not find out what the problem is.

Also is see with switch /gf that the installation dialog in in Italian language.

On the update part, i know that deployments need update patches, but like Microsoft i think the software develops should make cummaltiv update packages, so the updat string is shorter then it is now with Acrobat (like a Service Pack).

Any help is appriciated

Francis

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Adobe Employee
vdobhal
Adobe Employee
March 18, 2011

Hi Francis,

The language mst files provided with the setup for your installer do not automatically get copied to the Administrative Install Point (AIP) that is created using the msiexec utility. If you are running your setup through the patched AIP (for 9.4.3), the installer will install it in the default language which is Italian (For Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Portugese group installer).

You should follow the steps listed below to create the AIP and install from it.

1. Create the AIP for 9.0 Acrobat ISDP installer using the following command line

2. CD to AIP and patch it till the version you want (9.4.3)

3. Copy the language mst files (e.g. 1034.mst-Spanish, 1040.mst-Italian, 1043.mst-Dutch & 1046.mst-Portugese) available in the orignial installer to the AIP folder.

4. Create the custom .mst file for all the customizations you require and copy this also to the AIP folder.

5. Deploy from the AIP using the following commmand line:

msiexec /i AcroStan.msi TRANSFORM="1043.mst";"Custom.mst" /qf.

This should work and you shoould see the Dutch UI as well as your customizations should also apply.

Let me know if you find any issues.

Thanks,

Vinod

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