Silent Install of Acrobat 8.1.2?

Is there any way to do a silent install of Acrobat 8.1.2? From what I've read so far there is no way? I can do other Adobe CS3 updates via LANREV, but wonder why that functionality working with Acrobat?
Adobe folks?????? Any help appreciated.

I don't think so. That would require an actual package for the OS installer to handle and as you can see that's not what the update installer is.
Sabian

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It sounds like you are trying to use a retail serial as an enterprise serial and would like to bypass it's restrictions by deactivating it . . . I assume that's not possible, but perhaps I don't understand your issue.
I doubt you'll get a good answer on the forum. Try support, your sales rep, or a help link on the licensing web site (if there is one).
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Creating an automated silent install of Acrobat using InstallShield Tuner - Part 1

For anyone who has tried to use the InstallShield Tuner application you'll know how buggy the program is and be aware of the lack of support from Adobe. After 4 months working on and off I managed to get a (mostly) working silent install. I thought I would share my findings with everyone so as to help prevent a few headaches.
Note I am based in England and some of my comments may not apply to US customers.
================================
Acrobat 6.0.1 Admin Install Point Creation & Maintenance
Creating the Install Point
1. Copy files to the network share that will be your Admin Install Point.
For Acrobat Professional these files are on the Acrobat CD
For Acrobat Reader you will need to download the latest version from www.adobe.com. Adobe is using a new compression package called Netopsystems FEAD Optimizer to deliver its Acrobat Reader application. To extract the files double click the downloaded .exe file and wait until the actual Reader installation begins. The uncompressed files are temporarily stored in %system root%\Cache\Adobe Reader 6.x.x\ENUBIG. Copy these files to the network share.
Once the installation files are copied to the network share select them, right click, choose properties, switch off read-only attribute for all files (inc sub folders).
2. Install the InstallShield Tuner 6.0.1 from Adobe Acrobat
(http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/deployment.html)
3. Install the software that you intend to create a .MST file for (Acrobat Reader or Pro) and update it to the same version number as the Tuner (6.0.1 at the time of writing). The latest Acrobat can be downloaded from Adobe as can patches for Acrobat Professional.
Note: After further investigation his step may not be necessary.
4. Due to a bug in the InstallShield Tuner the PCs language and regional settings must all be set to English US. (START Menu Settings Control Panel Regional and Language Options). Set everything to English US.
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Acrobat Reader Configurataion
1. When prompted choose Create a New Transform
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3. Give the .MST file a name
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6. File - Save
Acrobat Writer Pro Configuration
1. When prompted choose Create a New Transform
2. Select AcroPro.msi as the base .MSI file
3. Give the .MST file a name
4. Click Create (this may take a minute to process)
NOTE: Do not click on the Organisation Product Properties field. If you do the installer will return a transform error when you try to deploy Acrobat. Instead enter these details in the Abcpy.ini file and via the command line. (See step 5)
5. Amend the Abcpy.ini file as below:
ISX_SERIALNUMBER=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx (where xxxx is your serial number)
USERNAME=xxxxxxxxxx (where xxxx is the users name)
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6. Features
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Continued in Part 2
===================

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Silent Install of Acrobat Pro 11

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I am using MDT to deploy Images and install apps. I have packaged Acrobat Pro XI with the Customization Wizard XI and have used both Unattended and Silent Install in the mst.
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MDT = Microsoft deployment toolkit
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Just Pro 7.0.0 (I'll integrate the patches to 7.0.9 later)
I'm not keen on an Admin install, as this poses problems when patching (i.e. you have to do a "reinstall=All"). I prefer to integrate released patches into the silent install package, and for subsequent patches, just package them for silent install and push them down to the client.
Reader 8.0 is on the machine only.
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\6.0\AdobeViewer]
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Adobe does not support updating of administrative install points like Microsoft products. Each software update will need to be run after the original application has completed installation.
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================================
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Can anyone give me some insight as to why Acrobat 9 Pro will not install silently. I have tried more variations of this than I can count to get it to work. The last method involved me extracting the file AcroPro90_efg.exe with UNIExtractor. I then used the Adobe Customization Wizard 9 to rebuild the package. I put the username, company name, serial, selected silent install option and a few other options, then saved the package. No matter what I try, the installation either quits without any indication as to why, or it will install but not be silent and asks me for the parameters. It seems as if the package is not reading the mst file to get the information to install silently. Even using the transforms switch does not seem to make any difference. Any one have any suggestions? TIA

Check out these technical documents:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/507/cpsid_50718.html
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/507/cpsid_50720.html
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/498/cpsid_49880.html
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