Running Acrobat inside Virtual IE 9

Question

Our computers have Internet Explorer 11 and Acrobat XI installed. We
have a single web application that requires IE 9. So I virtualized IE 9
using a template, no problem there. While running the web application in
virtual IE 9 it needs to open pdf files externally in Acrobat (not using
the plugin inside of IE). The documentation states the following to in
order to run a native application in a virtual environment:
To enable a natively installed application to launch in a virtual
environment: click on the Multiple button next to the Startup File
field, in the File column, enter the local path of the natively
installed application.
So I added @PROGRAMFILESX86@\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\Acrobat.exe
But when I run my virtual IE 9 app and click on a link to a pdf the
download manager briefly flashes but the pdf doesn't open in Acrobat, it
just disappears into never, never land. If I check Acrobat to Auto Start
with the virtual app, it does, so I know that is working.
What else do I need to do so that my virtual IE9 app will open pdf files
in Acrobat?
Thanks

Answer 1

On 03/31/2015 8:16 AM, katiefinn wrote:
>
> Have you had any luck with this?
>
> I'm having the same problem with virtual IE9 and local IE11. However,
> it's all downloads/files, not just pdfs. Nothing can be downloaded from
> IE. The download manager box flashes then disappears, and the file never
> downloads.
>
> I've also noticed that this problem DOES NOT happen when the local IE is
> 9.
>
>
No, I gave up because I could never get it to work. It only works if the
virtualized version of IE is the same as the locally installed version.
I ended up building a virtual windows terminal server with IE9 as
published app.