Deployment Solution

I am trying to create a batch file to perform a silent install of Adobe reader 9. I have downloaded the customization tool and have created a transform for it. I will be pushing the install with Altiris deployment solution. Presently my batch file looks like this : START /WAIT MSIEXEC /I "server share\acroread.MSI" ALLUSERS=TRUE EULA_ACCEPT=YES SUPRESS_APP_LAUNCH=YES TRANSFORMS="server share\adobe9.mst /qn

If I run the batch file manually it works with no issues, however when I push it through Altiris is shows installed successfully through the altiris deployment console, but adobe 9 doesn't actually install. I am using a service account to do the install through Altiris - account is not locked and works for other installs including adobe 8.1.2

We ended up removing the transform and embedding the script instaead of in a .bat file - used "\\server\share\AdbeRdr90_en_US_Std.exe" /sAll /rs /l /msi"/qb-! /norestart ALLUSERS=1 EULA_ACCEPT=YES SUPPRESS_APP_LAUNCH=YES"

This worked with no issues.

I push this by just doing the run script option from DS this is the code
msiexec.exe /I "\\YourServer\Express\AcroRead.msi" /QN TRANSFORMS="\\YourServer\Express\AcroRead.mst"

The tools does allow you to customize 9 and it  works. You can call these options up from your code but if you use the tool from adobe it makes add moves or changes in the future easy and you dont have to know all the code to call up all the options.

Just fyi for the Other Adobe products that I push via the Run Script job

Adobe Flash Player has two one for Active X browsers This would be for IE and one for Browser plugins this would be like for Firefox    
I do a copy job to the local box first on these because of the way they extract the exe  then call that up
code below

c:\temp\install_flash_player_10_plugin.msi /qb!
c:\temp\install_flash_player_10_active_x.msi /qb!

Adobe ShockWave
c:\temp\sw_lic_full_installer.msi /qb!

Adobe Air
c:\temp\AdobeAIRInstaller.exe -silent

Take care

In case you need some additional documentation read the Deploying Adobe Reader 9 manual : http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/deploying_reader9.pdf?devcon=f3

Hope it helps

regards
Paolo

I am having a similar issue with File Maker Pro 10. I send over the files to a temp directory and then run the silent commands (also tried a msi with transform) and it will not install or give an error. It just creates a file maker pro directory in the programs folder. that's it.