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March 6, 2012
Question

Deploy all 19 patches for Acrobat 9 in one step?

  • March 6, 2012
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I have about a thousand machines that are all running Acrobat 9.0.0 - I wrote a script that looks like this:

strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

On Error resume next

Set colAcrobat = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_Product Where Name like '%Adobe Acrobat%'")

For Each objSoftware in colAcrobat

          Acrobat = objSoftware.Upgrade (".\AcroProStdUpd910_T1T2_incr.msp",REBOOT=ReallySuppress)

          Wscript.Echo Acrobat

          Acrobat = objSoftware.Upgrade (".\AcrobatUpd911_all_incr.msp",REBOOT=ReallySuppress)

          Wscript.Echo Acrobat

          Acrobat = objSoftware.Upgrade (".\AcrobatUpd912_all_incr.msp",REBOOT=ReallySuppress)

          Wscript.Echo Acrobat

          Acrobat = objSoftware.Upgrade (".\AcrobatUpd913_all_incr.msp",REBOOT=ReallySuppress)

          Wscript.Echo Acrobat

etc etc

Right about after it installs 9.1.2 - I get an error with 9.1.3 - basically I need to reboot.

Is there some way of doing it in one go? This may work better if I run the script via sccm with the user logged off, but testing this thing is a total nightmare .

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2 replies

March 19, 2013

I would try using Bootstrapper method instead.  You can still use a script but the installation will still take a long time with that many updates.

EnterpriseHelp
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Community Manager
March 6, 2012

Can you try one of the methods in the admin guide like the one suggested here?:

http://blogs.adobe.com/pdfitmatters/2010/11/install-acrobat-9-0-and-all-updates-and-patches-in-one-step.html

Admin guide: http://www.adobe.com/go/acrobatitinfo

Ben

March 9, 2012

What I ended up doing was pulling back what was there and deploying the product with all the patches sequenced. Its odd that I can do that without rebooting, but I can't install the patches one by one without rebooting...

Participant
April 30, 2012

This probably won't help you, but there's an experimental 9.x Reader SCUP catalog on LABs.

Just in case. . .

Ben


We've upgraded to Adobe Reader 10.1.3 already.

I guess there just wasn't budget for Adobe Acrobat licenses.

Thanks anyway!