Building a Software Package installation for Adobe Reader 10.1.1

The key component here was to install Adobe Reader and not have it check for updates automatically.

Applied to Distribute Adobe Reader from www.adobe.com

Downloaded Adobe Reader from:

http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/

Downloaded Adobe Customization Wizard from: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/deployment.html

Run the Customization Wizard and open the extracted acroread.msi.

• Installation Options:
  • Make Reader the default PDF viewer
  • Installation = Silently (no interface)
  • Reboot = Suppress Reboot
• Shortcuts
  • Remove Desktop Shortcut
• EULA
  • Suppress display of EULA
• Online and Acrobat.com Features
  • Disable Help -> Purchase Adobe Acrobat
  • Disable Help -> Digital Editions
  • Disable Product Improvement Program
  • Disable all Acrobat.com Access
• Registry
  • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe ARM\1.0\ARM
    • iCheckReader=dword:00000000
  • This was to set the update mode:
    • 0 = Manual: Do not download or install updates automatically
    • 1: Not used
    • 2 = Semi Automatic: Automatically download updates, but let me choose when to install
    • 3 = Automatic: Automatically install updates.
  • Information taken from page 15 and 16 of the following:  http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/837/cpsid_83709/attachments/Acrobat_Reader_Updater.pdf

Generate Transform to create mst file (don’t “Save Package”, as this would modify the msi)

Close – When prompted to Save changes to AcroRead, select NO.

The SCCM Program (command line) is then just:

msiexec.exe /i AcroRead.msi TRANSFORMS="My_AcroRdr_10.mst" /qn