Adobe Acrobat Custom Inventory

If you've ever tried to track (and inventory) copies of Adobe Acrobat on your machines, you know it's a task that's riddled with mystery. Juice contributor robertser stared the problem down, cracked the code, and provided a nifty script for the rest of us.

Currently it is a very complicated process to check the version of Adobe Acrobat that is installed on a PC. Adobe chose not to put this information in the file header of their application or even in an easy to read registry key. Rather, they chose to make the product name and version encrypted inside of a special GUID. Here is a link to their Web site that shows how to do this manually.

I wrote a simple Wise script that does this translation automatically and inserts the information into a custom inventory file. Just change the dataclass to follow your naming standards, compile the script, and roll it out as a Software Delivery package.