Upgrade Adobe Reader via GPO

Hello,
We have about 50 workstations with Adobe Reader 10.1.3. It was installed manually. Now, we would like to upgrade them to version 11 via GPO. Can someone provide me the step-by-step instruction on how to do that? I've seen some articles but scenarios are different because we never had GPO created for Adobe Reader.
Thanks!
Message was edited by: MsDeeJaye

One word of warning, I've been pushing Reader through our GPO for the last year or so and it's not 100% flawless. Which, to be fair, a lot of GPO installs seem to fall into the "not 100% category". Tried several different ways ranging from keeping huge version lists that grow with every patch and doing the package upgrade method noted in the admin guide linked above (which is a great general purpose guide by the way, used it a good deal) to making completely new packages every patch and removing old installs from GPO so only current ones are there. The problem we always hit is that sometimes the version you're replacing does not fully go away. You'll get cases where you've upgraded a group through several versions, and then when you do an inventory on a random machine you'll find that it reports having the current version, and one or more old versions as well. So if you are moving to GPO from another deployment solution, depending on how many computers you are deploying to a good software inventory piece is handy. I often find remnant keys in the installer reg entries which are pretty normal to check when doing reg cleanup, but also when deploying via GPO there's HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy\AppMgmt which holds keys for everything the system thinks it has installed via GP. These don't always get cleared properly, and will have the PC report software as installed even if it's gone. Just a quirk to keep an eye out for, expecially if you are trying to maintain app counts on your workstations. Also: Adobe Customization Wizard.. learn it, love it.

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