Download and Install MSI or Any Package?

[Longhill5E90]

Hi any/everyone,

Have recently purchased for licenses of Acrobat Standard DC.

After an hour or so of clicking through links, logging into portals, entering passwords and looking for an email address for support that I can't find, I have given up and posted here.

I own 4 licenses. I would like an .msi or .exe or anything I can deploy here so my users can use this software.

All I've found so far is something that wants to email them links to the software, but this isn't the way I want to manage this - I want to deploy it myself.

Can anyone at Adobe steer me right?

Thanks. 

[___Dom___]

Hi,

You can download an extractable archive from the following page which you can deploy via msiexec: 

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/acrobat-dc-downloads.html - Download Acrobat DC | Enterprise term or VIP license

You can deploy with the required update from this page by placing the MSP file in the installation directory and referencing it in the setup.ini:

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/release-note/release-notes-acrobat-reader.html

https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/DesktopDeployment/bootstrapper.html#setup-ini-exa... 

More details on deployment available here:

https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/AdminGuide/cmdline.html 

Hope that helps,

Dom

[Longhill5E90]

That's fab, I'll give that a go.

Thanks Dom.

[Longhill5E90]

Hi Dom - ok done so, can't seem to deploy with PDQ (/qn switches don't work on the .msi) but I'm testing a couple of manual installs now. They're prompting for restarts (not really ideal) but on first run asking to sign in with Adobe IDs. I don't want this at all, I just want silent installs. How do I go about this so it doesn't trouble users?

Thanks.

[Longhill5E90]

Hi Dom sorry still struggling with this. Just want to deploy the software, not get caught up with users signing into portals and creating accounts and Adobe sign-in features. Just need it to get installed and work.

Thanks.

[___Dom___ · Accepted solution]

Hi again,

you can disable all the services integration with the Acrobat Customization Wizard prior to installing:

https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Wizard/online.html

Load the MSI from the installation package into the Wizard, make the relevant changes, and save the MST file alongside your MSI, then install using this to ensure the changes are used.

Hope that helps.

Dom