Hi everybody To create an. It's a really nice tool and it was very easy to configure the installation for my requirements. I can now easy install Acrobat on every computer i want to, but there's also a little problem: After the first start of the program the user is prompted to activate it through the internet or phone. Does anyone know how to disable the activation? Or is there a corporate edition available for this product? Thanks for your efforts and sorry for my bad english, normally I'm speaking german ;- greetings Thomas R. Seems to be a problem affecting a lot of packagers judging by the similar postings in other forums. We have the corporate version can be identified by NACT appearing within the product code and packaged it with very few problems. We could find no way of disabling the internet activation request on the standard version, for my money I don't think there is a way round this it wouldn't be in Adobe's interests to make it so. I hope this fixes it for you. This worked for me on Adobe Standard Edition. Stumbled across a solution that works... I then took a snapshot of what happens when you register a installed Acrobat 7 and came up with 1 file and 1 registry entry. Hey guys Working on preparing Acrobat 7. I've used Installshield Tuner 7. I then save the complete package to another location. Create a new GPO, add the. The only difference seems to be that the Company name, user name, and serial number fields are already populated, so a portion of the. How can I force this app to run silently while using W2K GPO deployment? I've found the msiexec command line MsiExec. When creating the GPO, I find no place to input cmd line arguments and actually just discovered the place to specifiy the. Thanks for the help Sandar Hi Sandar You have to change your command line to setup. You can also add some other parameters, like a. You have to quote it, if you are using more then one, for example setup. Another way is to add the paramters directly in the setup. With this entry you can also send parameters to msiexec. I hope you give me a feedback if this help was usefull for you and which solution you used. I could've walked around and installed this on the 30 users' desktops by now, but I'd like to beat it instead. And it still behaves exactly the same, the install acts just like a normal install except that the Company Name, User Name, and serial number portion fields are populated. I have to click next a few times, select English, the Eula comes up, the whole annoying ball of wax I'm trying to avoid. This is what my setup. It defaults to Maximum. So, I finally actually achieved a silent install yesterday. Except that thereafter, opening My Computer, the Control Panel, the Printers folder; all of these things cause the entire friggin app to reinstall. So I thought it might have something to do with the complexity of the changes I made using the Installshield Tuner. That's it, no other changes. Repackaged the MSI, recreated the GPO, tested with my test user and... Still did that reinstall crap. So the pressure was on and we had to do a walk-around and install from the cd today as copied up to our network , so Adobe won. Ultimately, I don't feel so bad, because I tried so many things. My ultimate assumption is simply that Adobe didn't test this thing all the way through to deployment at all, because it just doesn't work correctly. But thanks for your help, Ret. I have the same problem with deploying Adobe Acrobat 7. It can't be activated by a user. They have to have admin rights to do it. I have tried to tweak the registry on a test computer, giving a test user full access to the registry and full access NTFS-permissions. Regards from Morten Hi All, Can any body pls help me to get rid of the activation window that appears directly after launching adobe acrobat 7. Has any body solved the problem.. I guess we need to be careful with this sort of thing. Trying to create a package which skips the activation will solve the deployment problem but it comes pretty close to a 'cracked' version which you might get from a p2p site.... Looks like you have to buy a large quantity to get the corporate version of the software which doesn't need the activaiton so it was a no go for us.. Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me. After installing Vista I installed Adobe Acrobat Pro 7. I then updated it to 7. I am logged on as administrator with full access. I also notice that the Activate and transfer tabs under the help tab are greyed out. What can I do to get this thing to work?? However, it sounds to me like you have a simple one-user installation issue. In that case, just uninstall everything and install in the correct sequence. I wouldn't know, I'm afraid, but I imagine that when you uninstall it, it will remove registration information. If not, you may have to obliterate the registry information manually having backed it first, of course. BTW, this is a software packaging forum, not a Helpdesk. Your question ought to have been posted on Adobe's forum.
