Sunday, April 12, 2015

Adobe DC Customisation Wizard

A new version of Adobe Reader is out, with a new name.  No longer called Adobe Reader, it is called Acrobat Reader.  And the version is ‘DC’.

So head on over to Adobe’s website, download and install the Customisation wizard:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=5892&fileID=5928

Grab Acrobat Reader (without the mcafee / google bundle):

http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/

Use your favourite program to extract the files from within the .exe file (WinRAR, 7zip, etc).








Once you have the .MSI file extracted, you can then open the customisation wizard, and open the .MSI using the customisation wizard.



Make any relevant changes you wish to the .MSI file.  EG: ‘Supress display of End User License Agreement (EULA)’, ‘Disable product updates’, ‘Disable Upsell’, etc.



You may also want to use the Registry section of the Customisation Wizard to makes changes, or use Group Policy, or alternate methods of setting the relevant keys:

Don't show messages while viewing a document
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\FeatureLockdown\cIPM\
bDontShowMsgWhenViewingDoc
Reg_DWORD
0

Show me messages when I launch Adobe Acrobat Reader DC
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\FeatureLockdown\cIPM\
bShowMsgAtLaunch
Reg_DWORD
0

Show welcome dialog when opening file
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\FeatureLockdown\cWelcomeScreen\
bShowWelcomeScreen
Reg_DWORD
0

HKLM\Software\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\FeatureLockDown\
bUsageMeasurement
Reg_DWORD
0

The ‘bDontShowMsgWhenViewingDoc’ as a value of ‘0’ to NOT display the message.  A value of 1 will display the message.  This is the reverse of what is expected given the name is DontShow.

Save the package in the customisation wizard, and install using the following command:
msiexec.exe /i AcroRead.msi TRANSFORMS=acroread.mst

The details for this post were found:

http://anonit.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/adobe-reader.html

http://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/PrefRef/Windows/AVGeneral.html?zoom_highlight=welcome#idkeyname_1_4934 (Some information in this is now incorrect, see the forum post below!)

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1812870
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5 comments:

  1. JasonMarch 22, 2016 at 8:33 AM

    You say, "The ‘bDontShowMsgWhenViewingDoc’ as a value of ‘0’ to NOT display the message." Indeed, this is what Adobe's documentation says, but the documentation appears to be wrong. If you test it, then look in the UI under Preferences, you'll see that it works the opposite of what the documentations says.

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  2. AnonITMarch 25, 2016 at 10:22 PM

    Hi Jason, thanks for the comment. Sorry for the delay, however I've only now just had a chance to test. I don't think I was clear in the original post. The documentation from Adobe looks correct on my install... correct, 0 disables the message, 1 will enable the message. I do get confused on the name though. Normally, a name of 'dont show' will imply a 1 prevents the message, 0 will show it, but in this case Adobe is backwards. See here: http://www.filesgohere.com/blog/AdobeAcrobatDCCustomisationWizard/AdobeReader_bDontShowMsgWhenViewingDoc.png. It was a very good idea to check in the UI to ensure the setting is being applied, though so thank you for that idea!

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  3. AlexApril 25, 2017 at 2:39 PM

    Thank you for sharing such a valuable information with us Adobe DC Customisation Wizard

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