How do I convert thousands of TIFF files to PDF while preserving their individual filenames?

I currently have a library of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of TIF documents.  We're going to switch document management programs so I figure this is an opportunity to cut the files over to a more user friendly format like PDF (everybody hates TIF). 
I need the filenames to remain the same since this library of files is indexed by filename. 
Is there any way to do this automatically?  Manually cutting over each file is not plausible.
Thanks!
Edit:  This may also be an opportunity to significantly reduce the size of my library, especially if I could make the resulting files "Reduced Size PDF's" compatible only with Adobe X and up.  If converting everything to a reduced file size is possible then that's definitely the way I'd like to go.

If you adjust the printer properties to not open the PDF that is created after it creates it and adjust some of the properties of the Adobe PDF printer, you might be able to set up a batch file to print to the Adobe PDF printer. Been a while since I have done batch files and am not sure what would be required. You might have to define the default printer in the command line to be the Adobe PDF printer and see if that will work with the basic print. The key may be to have a delay to be sure the print process is completed before continuing.
OK, I am just throwing out a possibility. I have no idea if it would work. However, it is a possibility if the batch process from Acrobat will not do the job.

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