Acrobat Standard DC and Reader DC with IE11

Hello everyone,

We have a RDS 2012 R2 environment for our users and I have recently installed Acrobat Standard DC on to our host servers. These servers also have Reader DC installed on them.

We have restricted access to Acrobat to two users by editing permissions on the exe as they are the only ones that require access to the application.

Since the installation of Acrobat, any PDFs being opened from Internet Explorer 11 are opening up in Acrobat and telling users that they need to accept the user agreement before they can open their PDFs, which they cannot accept as they have been denied access to Acrobat. I have checked out the default application for individual users as well as myself and it is set to Reader but the PDFs still persist in opening in Acrobat. These PDFs are being accessed through our local intranet which is on SharePoint 2013.

So really my question is, is there a way to force PDFs to open in Reader rather than Acrobat other than through Default Programs? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.