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ledouxd
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April 20, 2009
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Can you Suppress registration and updates in FrameMaker 9?

Has anyone figured out how to suppress udpates and registratrion?  In version 8 you were able to create a application.override.xml that suppress these settings.   I know about the silent install option but none of the swtiches address updates or registration. Any idea or help would be appreciated.

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis GubinsCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    May 26, 2009

    Thanks for reporting back.

    On XP systems this file is located at C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\com.adobe.367.ALL.registration

    Note: the number [367] seems to vary by installation.

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    ledouxdAuthor
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    May 22, 2009

    The name of the file that changes when you click "Don't ask Again" to suppress registering FrameMaker 9 software is "com.adobe.30.ALL.registration".  Just replace the file on new install before launching frramemaker 9 for the first time.  On Vista this file can be located at C:\Users\"User account"\AppData\Roaming\Adobe

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis GubinsCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    May 26, 2009

    Thanks for reporting back.

    On XP systems this file is located at C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\com.adobe.367.ALL.registration

    Note: the number [367] seems to vary by installation.

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    April 22, 2009

    For surpressing the automatic updates, I believe that you have to turn of the Automatic Updater just like in the CS suite products. See this technote for more info: http://www.adobe.com/go/kb408711

    Other then telling FM to never register the first time it prompts, I don't know how to turn this off in FM.

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    ledouxdAuthor
    Participant
    April 22, 2009

    Thanks for the link.  I never knew you could do that with the update via a reg key.  I have always disabled it via the command line during installation.   The problem with the registration is that I will be implementing frameMaker on 4000+ laptops and I don't want users to see registration at all.  I wonder if it the maker.ini is what starts the registration process. Any other things you can think of to check?

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    April 22, 2009

    I don't think it's in the maker.ini. I suspe t that it's hidden in the Registry as well. I know that the CS suite has a setting that you can drill down to to toggle the DWORD between 0,1,2 to adjust the Registration prompts to not registered, later or never (or something like that - search the knowledgebase for this)

    Have you tried tech support? Installation issues for so many seats should be supported - you may have to ask to go to the next level of support, though.

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