Install Adobe Reader DC with SCCM
In this guide I will go through the process of creating an customized Adobe Acrobat Reader DC installer and deployed with SCCM. In this case I will use the latest Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, AcroRdrDC1801120058, and SCCM CB 1806.
First lets download required Adobe binaries:
Download offline Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for Distribution from https://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/
Feb 19, 2019 if you 're connected to free Adobe Document Cloud services. Adobe Reader DC is set to be automatically updated (if your device is connected to the Internet), to ensure that cloud and desktop features and functionality remain synchronized and compatible. Adobe recommends that users update to the latest version to take advantage of security and stability improvements. Updates can be installed as described below. For information about the latest version, see the Release Notes. To install Adobe Reader and Acrobat updates from Adobe Updater, do the.
I followed the link and updated Adobe Reader just like I have done hundreds of times before. I relaunched MS Edge and lo and behold I get the same message I have to update Adobe Reader, so I do it again check the update version is indeed the latest and reboot my laptop.
Download Acrobat Customization Wizard DC from ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/AcrobatDC/misc/ official documentation for Acrobat Customization wizard is here: https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Wizard/WizardDC/index.html
After you finish to download Adobe Acrobat Reader DC for Distribution you will have only a .exe installer, using this installer adobe it will beinstalled with default settings which we don't want 😊, we want to create our personilzed adobe Reader product.
- Using 7zip (https://www.7-zip.org/download.html )or other toll unzip the AcroRdrDC1801120058_en_US.exe installer. Examining the unzip file you will find some .msi .msp setup.ini, etc. See the print screen
- Install Acrobat Customization Wizard DC, start the program, open a new project and point to the extracted .msi installer. I will use configuration for a basic unattended corporate installation
- Suppress display EULA
- Make Reader the default PDF viewer
- Run installation, select silently and Suppress reboot
- Desktop, Remove Acrobat Reader DC
- Online Features, Disable product updates
- Services Integration, Disable all services
- Third-party connectors, Disable all
- You can configure more details but for me those are the most important, save configuration by clicking in bar Transform and Generate Transform. Give the .MST file a name and save it on the project folder
- Open steup.ini in notepad or other text editor, Add a new line: CmdLine=TRANSFORMS='custom-sccm.ie.mst' /qb!+ who it will include you new .MST file with /qb!+ switch. In my case I have removed the MSI Updater portion, usually in corporate env are proxy with limited acces internet for setup installers, this is how my file looks
- Personalization Option,
- Installation options
- Shortcuts
- Online Services and Features
You can configure more details but for me those are the most important, save configuration by clicking in bar Transform and Generate Transform. Give the .MST file a name and save it on the project folder
Open steup.ini in notepad or other text editor
[Startup]
RequireMSI=3.0
CmdLine=/sall /rs
[Product]
CmdLine=TRANSFORMS='custom-sccm.ie.mst' /qb!+
PATCH=AcroRdrDCUpd1801120058.msp
msi=AcroRead.msi
- SCCM, copy the new folder who has all the binaries plus your new .MST file and modified setup.ini in our SCCM apps repositories , a share folder from where SCCM and Distribution point can access to copy the source files
- General, chose Manually specify the application information
- General Information, specify the software name details like name, version, owners, etc
- Application catalog, if you have an organized catalog add more details about this app
- Deployment Types, select Add Button
- General, chose Manually specify the deployment type information, Type, Select Script Installer
- General Information,
- Content location, browse and select the sare folder with Adobe binaries
- Installation program, Setup.exe is all needed no other switches, your custom setup.ini and .MST file will control the entire setup process
- Detection method, Add Clause, point from wizard to a computer where Adobe Dc is already installed. If you want to do an upgrade you can specify more requirements like minimum version, see the print screen
- Installation Behaviour – Install for System
- Logon requirement -Whether or not a user is logged on
- Installation program visibility – Hidden
- Maximum allowed time – 15 minutes, in case it fail for trouble shooting you don't need to wait years 😊
- Estimated time – 5
- Content
- User Experience
- Requirements – None
- Dependencies – None
- Summary, review all the settings
- Next and finish 😊
- Now you need to distribute and deploy the product
What happens after and how you check if everything is fine with this deployment?
- On SCCM server go to Monitoring à Overview à Deployments à and search for your Adobe deployment, I love when everything is green 😊
- On computer client
computer-namec$WindowsCCMLogs and look for AppDiscovery.log and AppEnforce.log
- Appdiscovery.log, You can see how the app wasn't discovered so a installation process was triggered
- AppEnforce.log, You can see entire installation process and how at the end it was successfully , exit 3010 is e success exit code, a reboot is required, in this example in .MST configuration file reboot wasn't supress
If you want this app to be used in a Task Sequence go to app properties and select Allow this application to be installed from TS
That was all, happy SCCM-ing :)
How to patch / update Adobe Reader DC with sccm
How to patch / update Adobe Reader DC with SCCM.
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Another week another security vulnerability in adobe products. Probably you have already deployed adobe reader with sccm using a custom installation, if not you can find the article here: Install Adobe Reader DC with SCCM . If you have already the product the normal way is just to update the product. In order to do this you need to download just the patch file .msp format from adobe
First let's go to offline installer page for adobe:
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Specific link for adobe reader patch windows 10 installation
All other adobe offline products are available here:
Once I have downloaded the file, in my case was AcroRdrDCUpd1901020098.msp available on 28 feb 2018, I have created a new app named February update
- Create a app
- General, chose manually
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- Application catalog
- Deployment Type – Add
- Chose script installer
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- General information
- Content add the location and command in installation program: msiexec /p 'AcroRdrDCUpd1901020069.msp' /qn
- Detection, here I have used the version of adobe reader , AcroRd32.exe version 19.10.20098.54430. Everything lower than this number it will be upgraded.
- User experience, Install for system, whether or not .
Yamaha ypg 235 drivers for mac. - Requirements, nothing
- Dependencies, nothing
- Summary, next
- Completion , close
- Deployments type, next
- Summary, next
- Progress, next
https://trueqfile328.weebly.com/autocad-2012-64-bits-2b-keygen-french.html. - Completion, close
App creation is finished. Now distribute the app on DP's.
Deploy the app to a collection where you have all the computer with adobe dc reader. Criteria for that collection is:
select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_INSTALLED_SOFTWARE on SMS_G_System_INSTALLED_SOFTWARE.ResourceId = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_INSTALLED_SOFTWARE.ProductName = 'Adobe Acrobat Reader DC'
or GUI
On one target computer, all good:
Job done, happy sccm-ing 😊
