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Has anyone found the group policy to disable auto update doesn't work?

I normally disable the auto-updater in the Customization Wizard because it's extremely unlikely we would ever need to enable it again. I have never had any issues doing it that way.

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Now that Firefox v19+ has PDF reading built in, im on the war path to get rid of the sceurity issue that is Adobe Reader, im on a warpath against Java as well, and plan to remove that as well. If only i could get rid of the last remaining glaring security hole that is Flash.... Edited by stylemessiah
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Now that Firefox v19+ has PDF reading built in, im on the war path to get rid of the sceurity issue that is Adobe Reader, im on a warpath against Java as well, and plan to remove that as well. If only i could get rid of the last remaining glaring security hole that is Flash....

 

Just use Foxit, it has been a better solution than Acrobat for years now, MSI deployable to with no hoop jumping like Adobe.

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I'm having issue's trying to stop Adobe Reader XI from updating.

 

I've used the Adobe Customization Wizard to create my .mst and when I check the registry after deployment I can see that bUpdater is set to 0 (disable updates) but for some reason it still updates!!!

 

Anyone got any ideas?

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for some reason it still updates!!!

Does the registry value below exist (assuming you are running the 64-bit edition of Windows 7)?

 

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\11.0\FeatureLockDown]
"bUpdater"=dword:00000000

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Hiya,

 

Can i ask is the msp file cumulative? i.e. can i download the 11.0 version and just patch it to the latest msp? or do i need to do it in the order? i.e. .2, .3 and now .4?

 

Thanks,

 

Ash.

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Does anyone have the full .exe installer? Struggling to find it....

Adobe does...

 

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.09/en_US/AdbeRdr11009_en_US.exe

 

You would probably be better off with Acrobat Reader DC though.

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I don't think it exists, but there's always Adobe Reader DC of course :)

 

is dc safe to use with sims (I know they can be funny about what it works with dotnet 4.5.2 for a while for example

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I have it deployed to at least one Sims school. The only issue I've had is with HR Portal (provided by Birmingham LA), which I have notified them about. Other than that testing with other websites has worked fine.

 

It's been out since early Spring 2015 and probably has better sandboxing than Adobe Reader 11. Users also find it easier to open recently used PDFs too.

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is dc safe to use with sims (I know they can be funny about what it works with dotnet 4.5.2 for a while for example

It should be. Our staff have Acrobat DC rather than Acrobat Reader DC (since we have Creative Cloud), but no one has reported any issues with that when used with SIMS.

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Adobe does...

 

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/11.x/11.0.09/en_US/AdbeRdr11009_en_US.exe

 

You would probably be better off with Acrobat Reader DC though.

Any chance you can put that on a HTTP link for me briefly? Our LA firewall blocks FTP.

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I tried not installing Reader on Win8 machines as the built-in reader will open pdfs, but it didn't work well as lots of the sites teachers/assistants like to download from didn't seem to recognise MS Reader :(.

 

Wonder if Edge will fare better? I'd like to be able to get rid of at least one bit of Adobe software this year.

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Any chance you can put that on a HTTP link for me briefly? Our LA firewall blocks FTP.

 

That's a bit crazy, why on earth would they block it?

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