What? | Recommendation and notes |
---|---|
Acrobat or Reader? | Acrobat requires licensing. Reader requires a distribution agreement. |
Acrobat Pro vs. Standard? | There is a single installer and the license determines what installs. Standard is unavailable on Macintosh. |
Licensing program? | ELTA, VIP, TLP, etc?: The program type determines what track you can use et. al. |
License types? | Serial number, Named User (recommended), or Feature Restriced Licensing? |
Track type? | Continuous or Classic? Continuous is recommended: deployments with NUL and services support the most options. |
Product version? | Ideally, you don’t care and are installing the latest. However, features do vary by version. |
Basic configuration | Admins typically suppress registration, accept the EULA, etc. Most of this you can do on the cmd line, but you can also use the Wizard. |
Advanced configuration | Use the Wizard and manual registry configuration to customize nearly any feature. |
AcroPro.msi
in the output folder. This is the correct behavior. Simply use AcroPro.msi
in any command line scripts whether you’re installing Pro or Standard.AcroStan.msi
.major.minor.minor_minor
.Version | Range | Notes |
---|---|---|
major | 1-255 | The last two digits of the release year.* |
minor | 1-255 | An internal number indicating when code moves from Trunk to Beta. |
minor_minor | 1-65535 | The first two digits indicate the track. 20 = Continuous. 30 = Classic. |
Hidden 4th field | Changelist number | Only visible if user clicks on the version number in the About box. |
*
The year-based version number is not the same as the Classic track name. While the Classic track version begins with 15
and the current track version is 2015
, the track name only changes at each major release–not every year. The version number increments every year.<user>/appdata/Roaming
folder which is synced to the VM on login.-sfx_o
command.7-zip (10.x and later) | Description |
---|---|
-sfx_ne | Do not execute any file after installation (overrides the -e switch) This switch should be used if user only wants to extract the installer contents and not run the installer. |
-sfx_o | Specifies the name of folder where the expanded package is placed. The folder name should be enclosed in quotation marks. It is best if you do not use an existing folder. |
-sfx_nu | Silently extracts the installation files from the EXE. |
REINSTALLMODE=amus
to do the work for you.
- If you’re using the MSI installer, configure abcpy.ini.
- If you’re using the Setup.exe bootstrapper installer, configure setup.ini.
- On your command line, you can use msiexec and Adobe properties and switches.