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Enterprise Version Inventory for Adobe Reader

Sep 15, 2011 9:47 PM

Is there a tool or method to build an inventory of Adobe Reader installed on computers in a domain?

 

This would allow specific targeting of Adobe Reader updates to the computers who needed it, say from version 9 to version 10.

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  • Ankit_Jain
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    1. Ankit_Jain,
    Sep 15, 2011 11:38 PM   in reply to Doigy
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    Hi,

     

    In case you have any deployment system like GPO in place, you can use a simple startup script to check for the presence of the following registry key(s):

    i. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0

    ii. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0

     

    A system with any version of Reader 9 installed would only have Registry (ii) whereas a system with Adobe Reader X would have registry (i) present.

     

    You can collect the information based on the same.

    Hope this helps.

     

    Thanks

    Ankit

     
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    2. Doigy,
    Sep 16, 2011 12:06 AM   in reply to Ankit_Jain
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    Okay, thanks.

     

    However, on my Windows 7 PC, the keys below do not exist in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE; they exist in HKEY_CURRENT_USER

     

    Cheers.

     
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    3. Ankit_Jain,
    Sep 16, 2011 1:06 AM   in reply to Doigy
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    Thanks for trying out the suggestion.

     

    I guess the machines that you have, are 64 nit machines, and so the registry key would be located at:

    i. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0

    ii. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0

     

    You can modify the script to look for these keys instead on 64 bit systems while look for the earlier mentioned keys on 32bit systems.

     

    Ankit

     
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    4. Doigy,
    Sep 16, 2011 1:33 AM   in reply to Ankit_Jain
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    Yes, that's correct, thanks.

     
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