Disable Adobe Online Features in Adobe Reader XI (11.x)

[RH]

We are attempting to disable certain Adobe Online Features within Adobe Reader 11.x.
- Create PDF Online
- Tools Pane

all while trying to keep the Sign Pane fully functional ("I Need to Sign" in particular using Place Initials and Place Signature)

Other features, such as disabling Purchase Adobe Acrobat, Disable Product Updates, Digital Editions, etc seem to work just fine.

We've used the Customization Wizard XI to do most of the work, but checking the 'Disable Tools Pane in Reader" box appears to do nothing.  If we Disable all Adobe Online Services using bEnableAcrobatHS = 0, we loose functionality within the Sign Pane (the only option is to Work with Certificates).  This is the expected behavior because of EchoSign, but we would like to disable as much of the Adobe Online Services as we can.

Per the Administrative Guide and Preference References, we've set the following which should disable these two features, but it doesn't appear to work...
bEnableFilesShare = 0

bCreatePDFOnline = 0

Has anyone successfully disabled the Create PDF Online and Tools Pane without loosing the Sign Pane, or features from the Sign Pane using the registry?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Rob

[MichaelKazlow]

Moved to Enterprise Deployment (Acrobat and Reader)

[ymcasysop · Accepted solution]

Found a solution:

Using the Adobe Customization Wizard XI, open the MSI, go to the section named "online and adobe online services" and tick the box that says "disable the tools pane in reader".

Then, generate the transform. If it complains about missing a setup.ini file, just create a blank text file named setup.ini in the same folder as the MSI file.

After that, deploy using GPO, and make sure to include the MST modification file. Or, just run the MSI installer manually.

[alexperezbarreiro]

You can customize your deployment as suggested, in an already installed Reader 11 setting this key to 0 removes the "Tools" option in the right panel: bEnableAcrobatHS

Find the related information and all the implications of this configuration on the Adobe XI doc:

Services integration