{"id":74,"date":"2009-03-31T16:46:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T20:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2009-03-31T16:46:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T20:46:19","slug":"updating-acrobat-using-msiexec-and-psexec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Updating Acrobat using msiexec and psexec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the software in our lab is managed via group policy through our active directory server, which means I can patch software by applying the .msp file (if it exists) to the network installation or by simplying adding a new network install point and having it upgrade the previous version of the software.<\/p>\n<p>However, some software pacakges, for licensing or performance reasons, have to be installed on individual machines.\u00a0 Our licenses for Adobe Acrobat mean that we have different versions installed on different machines throughout the lab.\u00a0 Every computer has reader, but some also have Acrobat 7 or 8.\u00a0 To patch these machines, I did the following:<\/p>\n<p>Downloaded the updates from the adobe site:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/support\/downloads\/product.jsp?product=1&#038;platform=Windows<\/p>\n<p>Use the ADMIN$ share on machines with Acrobat installed to store the patches, and run <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb896649.aspx\" target=\"_self\">psexec<\/a> from a control machine to install them.<\/p>\n<p>For Acrobat 7, I only to install 2 updates on a couple of machines and I used the command line options I found on AppDeploy to run them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>msiexec \/p c:\\windows\\temp\\AcPr710.msp;c:\\windows\\temp\\ AcroUpd711_all_incr.msp REINSTALLMODE=OMUS RINSTALL=All REBOOT=ReallySuppress \/qn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For 8, I wrote a batch file to apply several updates in order, with the following format:<\/p>\n<p><strong>msiexec \/p c:\\windows\\temp\\AcrobatUpd814_all_incr.msp \/q<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AppDeploy Acrobat Pages:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.appdeploy.com\/packages\/detail.asp?id=545<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.appdeploy.com\/packages\/detail.asp?id=431<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.appdeploy.com\/packages\/detail.asp?id=937<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the software in our lab is managed via group policy through our active directory server, which means I can patch software by applying the .msp file (if it exists) to the network installation or by simplying adding a new network install point and having it upgrade the previous version of the software. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,31,13,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}