Profiling Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.2

Posted on October 21st, 2009

In order to profile Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.2 for Citrix streaming I did the following.

Stage 1 – Download source files

Download and install the Adobe Customization wizard 9

Download the distribution version of Acrobat reader 9.2. You need to register on the adobe site to get access to this download.

Extract the msi from the .exe that was downloaded by running the following

AdbeRdr920_en_US.exe” -nos_ne -nos_o”Extracted”

This will place the extracted files in the “Extracted” folder

Stage 2 – Create a customised installation

Open the customization wizard

Open the Reader msi (extracted above)

Select the options desired. I chose the following:

Supress display of EULA

Remove acrobat.com features

disbale all updates

disable help | Digital editions

Disable product improvement programs

Disable help | Purchase acrobat

Save the customisation MST file

Stage 3 – install

Create a .cmd file that contains the install string including the MST file. For example:

msiexec /i “acroread.msi” TRANSFORMS=”adobe_9_2_transform.MST”

Launch this .cmd file from the Citrix Streaming Profiler

Install as normal

Stage 4 – Add a pre-launch script

Even though the option to disable updates was selected during the customisation wizard, it is not disabled when streaming the app. The same applies to the customer improvment program.

The best way to remove these is to run a pre-launch script to set the reg keys to remove these options.

Create a .vbs script with the following contents

Set objWshShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
objWshShell.RegWrite “HKLM\Software\Adobe\Adobe ARM\1.0\ARM\iCheck”, 0 ,”REG_DWORD”
objWshShell.RegWrite “HKCU\Software\Adobe\CommonFiles\Usage\Reader 9\OptIn”, 0 ,”REG_DWORD”

Call this script as a pre-launch script within the streaming profiler.