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Pushing non microsoft updates to users RandallG 04-07-2006
Posted by RandallG on April 7, 2006, 11:27 am
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Hello,



I'm a new server administrator using Windows server 2003....
I am trying to come up with a way to push Adobe acrobat Reader 7.0.7
too all our users all of which are "Power Users" but not
administrators even on their local machines. Those default rights
prevent them from installing updates themselves.
What I need to do is push or (create a logon script) that pushes
the update to them when they log in.
How do I do that since they can't install software with their login
permissions? I know they can accept the "Windows Updates" and
install them as themselves.....I've done a ton of research but
obviously not in the right places yet.

All help will be MOST appreciated !!!

Randall

Posted by Steven L Umbach on April 7, 2006, 7:49 pm
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What you want to look at is to see if you can do it via Group Policy
Software Installation which uses .msi packages to distribute authorized
software to users and computers. In such case the users do not need to be a
member of a privileged group. Offhand I don't know what Adobe offers related
to what you need but I would visit their website to check their support
section and search for Adobe Acrobat .msi. The links below may help. ---
Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816102
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/4bdaf0f7-b7ac-41a6-9d25-9eab6aa1965c1033.mspx
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/GPO_AD_7.pdf


> Hello,
>
>
>
> I'm a new server administrator using Windows server 2003....
> I am trying to come up with a way to push Adobe acrobat Reader 7.0.7
> too all our users all of which are "Power Users" but not
> administrators even on their local machines. Those default rights
> prevent them from installing updates themselves.
> What I need to do is push or (create a logon script) that pushes
> the update to them when they log in.
> How do I do that since they can't install software with their login
> permissions? I know they can accept the "Windows Updates" and
> install them as themselves.....I've done a ton of research but
> obviously not in the right places yet.
>
> All help will be MOST appreciated !!!
>
> Randall



Posted by Jaap de Koning on April 10, 2006, 5:06 am
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Its even easier for Adobe products. You can install the newest version
locally on one of your PC's, copy the MSI it creates in the program
directory to a remote share and publish it with GPO's, like Steven
said. It even updates older versions of Adobe 7 to the new version.

One more sidenote: Adobe is a bit tricky about showing version numbers.
After install, it still says version 7.0, but if you check the help ->
system information it shows all the files in the 7.0.7 version.

Good luck!


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