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Hello,
I've recently started installing Adobe Acrobat (Reader) during OS installaiton via Confoguration Managet from the Microsoft Store using Winget - the installation works perfectly fine, after the installation finishes I can login to the system and I can ope PDFs via the Reader application. When I open a PDF I get a popup message (screenshot below), which suggests that the reader application is not set as the default app to open PDFs and it is in my case, as I have a GPO that set's "Adobe Acrobat" as the default app to open .pdf files (screnshot below).
Is there a GPO or registry entry that can hide the message for all users in a corporate environment?
P.S.
Can Adobe make up their mind on how the products are named, be consistent in the naming and not rename them so frequently?
In Control Panel I can see "Adobe Acrobat", then I open the applicaiton tand he title bar shows "Adobe Acrobat Reader" and the file association shows "Adobe Acrobat" - this is very confusing for an IT person.
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You may find here valuable information for solving your issue: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Wizard/registry.html
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Hey Abambo,
thanks for the link!
If I understand this correctly, the solution in the link offers a registry export from a properly configured device, so that later on it get imported into a new device - this would work one time, right?
I'm looking for a solution that utilizes a GPO that sets file to application associations (the GPO will overwrite the associations each time the GPO kicks in).
Unless, I misounderstood your intentions and you meant to hide the prompt using registry?
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You talked about GPO and registry entry. I'm knowledgable enough to understand the term "GPO", but my time in system management was during the mini-computers and maiframes period. I never managed countless Windows workstations. At that point I moved on and worked as a Graphics Artist and as advisor. <humor> I always had the good ideas and the others were sweating to implement that, because bosses loved my ideas…</humor> So this time you need to check, if my link is useful for you. I can't judge that from a distance.
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Thanks Abambo,
in my case a registry setting won't help as the file association will get overwritten every time the computer processes GPO.