SCUP Acrobat/Reader Catalogs

[oviquez]

Hi,

I added the catalogs indicated below on System Center Updates Publisher 2011:

http://armmf.adobe.com/arm-manifests/win/SCUP/Acrobat11_Catalog.cab

http://armmf.adobe.com/arm-manifests/win/SCUP/Acrobat10_Catalog.cab

http://armmf.adobe.com/arm-manifests/win/SCUP/Reader11_Catalog.cab

http://armmf.adobe.com/arm-manifests/win/SCUP/Reader10_Catalog.cab

Once I try to import through Updates - Import, I receive this error message for every single link:

Download file: http://armmf.adobe.com/arm-manifests/win/SCUP/Reader10_Catalog.cab failed with message "The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable."

Note: I also use http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/distribution/win/AdobeFlashPlayerCatalog_SCUP.cab to get updates, but I did not get any error for this link after the import.

Have you ever experienced an error like this one?

Best Regards.

[Guest]

Does anyone know how to resolve this? I'm experiencing the same issue, I'm currently using SCUP 2011.

[Tariq Dar]

Hello,

Would you take look of the documentation and check if that helps: SCCM-SCUP — Enterprise Administration Guide

-Tariq Dar.

[dvulyak]

I have been having this problem for months still.

The guide does not help, we are using the catalogs provided. The catalogs are being updated as new patches are released. The links to download the content within the catalogs are WRONG.

Why are you continuously updating catalogs with the wrong URLs for the content. Every single time it is 404 errors in the log when trying to download the content for publishing.

Can you at least provide a proper link to the content? I can edit the XML every time if I have to, which is a giant pain in the rear, but if it allows me to distribute much needed Adobe security updates through Config Manager, then I will do it.

Months of this! Months! What the heck are you guys doing?

[sourabsharma]

Hi Dvulyak,

I can not see any issue in catalog files,

i checked all the paths in catalogs , everything is fine.Also published Acrobat11_Catalog.cab using SCUP 2011 successfully.

Can you please extract the .xml files from cab files and check if you are able to access paths mentioned in there.

Paths will be:

Acrobat11_Catalog.cab : http://armdl.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/11.x/11.0.20/misc/AcrobatUpd11020.msp 

Reader11_Catalog.cab: http://armdl.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.20/misc/AdbeRdrUpd11020_MUI.msp  and http://armdl.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.20/misc/AdbeRdrUpd11020.msp 

Reader10_Catalog.cab: http://armdl.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.1.16/misc/AdbeRdrUpd10116_MUI.msp  and http://armdl.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.1.16/misc/AdbeRdrUpd10116.msp  .

Check on your machine whether you are able to download patches from these links or not.

Regards,

Sourab Sharma

[dvulyak]

It is a DNS issue (at least it was for us)

Try this in a command prompt to look it up with google's free DNS: nslookup 8.8.8.8 armdl.adobe.com

What we ended up having to do was use a conditional forwarder in our DNS server to use 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to look up all addresses on adobe.com

SCUP is working now.

[stefan32726300]

Hi guys,

we have the same issue here, but the problem was caused by the German Telekom DNS Server.

They are not able to resolve the hostname "armdl.adobe.com".

Regards.

Stefan

[dvulyak]

Yes, it is a DNS issue. On two of my networks that use BIND, armdl.adobe.com does not resolve. It resolves if we do a lookup using google's free DNS.

We have created conditional forwarders for adobe.com in order to resolve armdl.adobe.com correctly. Still sucks that we have to do this, but at least it works.