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I am sure this has been asked but I couldn't find anything
We have many computers on a corporate network that are running Adobe Acrobat (6, 7, 8, & 9). I am looking for an effective way to update all of my adobe versions with the latest patches on all of the computers without going to each computer and downloading 6-12 different updates.
Is there a centrally manage and deploy the updates to all PCs automatically? I know there is many high-end software to do this that will cost 5,000-10,000 dollars but I would prefer to do it for much less if possible. Right now for us Adobe is the Only product that is 'out of date'.
If not, do I need to download each update and deploy all of them or is there a 'rollup' package or service pack I can install instead? ex...for Acrobat 8.0 I need to download 8.01, 8.02, 8.03, then 8.1, 8.12, 8.12, then 8.2...etc. I would like to download the most recent update and apply that to the origional installation. Most software has this capability so I may be surprised if Adobe doesn't offer this ability.
Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.
Thank You

I am in a similiar circumstance and received the following advice:
CowboyInAZ recommended to me:
Why not manually download the standalone installer of 9.3.1, and put it on a network server? Then link to it internally, and let the end users install it from the internal link, where the firewall can't interfere with it.
|ʇɐb ɹəuəllıʍ responded:
Here are the downloads, if you want to use the suggestion from the previous post:
* 9.3 installer http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.3/enu/AdbeRdr930_en_US.msi
* 9.3.1 update http://ardownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/9.x/9.3.1/misc/AdbeRdrUpd931_all_incr.msp
I am looking for a way to package the msp in a GPO but have not been successful.
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