Cannot overwrite adobe PDF on share location with protection mode enabled

Hey all,

We use Adobe Acrobat Reader at our company for all staff. Currently testing with version 2025.001.20435. Great app. Except now we have the issue of not being able to save and overwrite an existing document if it's on the network share. It will prompt to save as, and then if you try and save over the original document it will say "The document could not be saved. Cannot save to this filename. Please save the document with a different name or in a different folder". We have Windows DFS SMB shares.

I have found in multiple posts that the solution is to disable 'Protection Mode' I can confirm that this allows us to overwrite and save the document as expected. This is against best practice as set out by Adobe. I'd rather see if there is a better solution for this.

So asking Adobe support and community members if you have come across a better to deal with this?

Appreciate your time/help.