Adobe Acrobat & Reader Updates

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Luke Reilly

Hi guys,

We're in the process of refining our monthly AVD patching process in an effort to automate tasks whenever possible. We are currently leveraging a combination of scripted actions and UAM scheduled tasks to install Windows updates and update standard applications within the image VMs. One of the final sticking points is updating the Adobe Acrobat & Reader applications, these have been installed using customized installers, so I don't think we can use the Windows Package Community objects in the UAM without breaking the customizations.

I'd really like to use a scripted action to download the latest .msp files from the Adobe website, and install them automatically. Unfortunately, Adobe don't make this easy by using permalinks like many other vendors… I have found the following URL: 

 Acrobat Enterprise Release Notes — Acrobat-Acrobat Reader Release Notes

 

 

This looks to list-out the available updates for each product, I'm wondering if your team might be able to write some clever logic to search for the latest .msp files under this URL based on the variables provided e.g. 'DC base (32-bit)' and use this to perform the update?

Many thanks, in advance.

Luke

 

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Dave Stephenson

Great idea, Luke!
That may be quite a bit of work to implement and might not be possible.
That being said, there's the Evergreen PowerShell Module that might do what you're wanting. With that module, it pulls the latest continuous track update. (see evergreen/Evergreen/Apps/Get-AdobeAcrobatProStdDC.ps1 at main · aaronparker/evergreen)

Do you think that'll do what you're needing?

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Luke Reilly

Hi Dave,

Apologies for the delayed response!

I have taken your suggestion and created a scripted action using the evergreen powershell module to download the latest Adobe Pro .msp and install it. 

Thanks for your help!

Cheers

Luke

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