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Adobe Reader 9 and Adobe Acrobat 9 do support the use of group policies for configuring these applications. However, I cannot find anywhere that Adobe provides an ADM file with the settings and descriptions that allow these group policy settings to be easily configured and applied. So i made my own ADM file, which I now share with you. i have tested most of these settings and they work very well.

To get your own ADM file, create a new TXT file and name it Adobe9.adm. Then copy all of the text below out of this posting and paste it into your ADM file. Enjoy!

; Administrative Template for Adobe Acrobat 9.0 and Adobe Reader 9.0
; Rick Patterson
; Version 1.0
; 1/23/2009

CLASS MACHINE

CATEGORY !!Reader

POLICY !!Checkforupdatesatstart
KEYNAME "Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\AVGeneral"
EXPLAIN !!Checkforupdatesatstart_Help
VALUENAME "bCheckForUpdatesAtStartup"
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY

POLICY !!DonotdisplayEULA
KEYNAME "Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\AdobeViewer"
EXPLAIN !!DonotdisplayEULA_Help
VALUENAME "EULA"
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableDisplayPDFinBrowser
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\Originals"
EXPLAIN !!EnableDisplayPDFinBrowser_Help
VALUENAME "bBrowserIntegration"
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableAdobeUpdater
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
EXPLAIN !!EnableAdobeUpdater_Help
VALUENAME "bUpdater"
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY

POLICY !!EnablePurchaseAdobeAcrobat
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
EXPLAIN !!EnablePurchaseAdobeAcrobat_Help
VALUENAME "bPurchaseAcro"
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableDigitalEditions
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
EXPLAIN !!EnableDigitalEditions_Help
VALUENAME "bShowEbookMenu"
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableProductImprovementProgram
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
EXPLAIN !!EnableProductImprovementProgram_Help
VALUENAME "bUsageMeasurement"
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableCreateBuzzwordDocument
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
EXPLAIN !!EnableCreateBuzzwordDocument_Help
VALUENAME "bCreateBuzzwordDoc"
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableCreateAdobePDFUsingAcrobatcom
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
EXPLAIN !!EnableCreateAdobePDFUsingAcrobatcom_Help
VALUENAME "bCreatePDFOnline"
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY

POLICY !!EnforceDisplayPDFinBrowser
KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
EXPLAIN !!EnforceDisplayPDFinBrowser_Help
VALUENAME "bBrowserIntegration"
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableDocumentMessageBar
KEYNAME "S