Monday, November 15, 2010

Slipstream Adobe Acrobat 9 updates

Want to Slipstream Adobe Acrobat 9 updates?
What you'll need: Patches and the installation files
Overview: Create network install point, upgrade network install point, install from network install point.

I copied the installation files to c:\Acro9Std, saved the update files (9.1, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.1.3, 9.2.0, 9.3.0, 9.3.2, 9.3.3, 9.4) to c:\Acro9Up, and created the network install folder c:\Acro94Img.

1) Run the administrative install using the installation files - run msiexec.exe /a "c:\Acro9Std\Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard\AcroStan.msi"
2) Choose the network installation folder (c:\Acro94Img)
3) Upgrade the administrative image using the image msi - run msiexec /a c:\Acro94Img\acrostan.msi /update c:\Acro9Up\AcroProStdUpd910_T1T2_incr.msp;c:\Acro9Up\AcrobatUpd911_all_incr.msp;c:\Acro9Up\AcrobatUpd912_all_incr.msp;c:\Acro9Up\AcrobatUpd913_all_incr.msp;c:\Acro9Up\AcrobatUpd920_all_incr.msp;c:\Acro9Up\AcrobatUpd930_all_incr.msp;c:\Acro9Up\AcrobatUpd940_all_incr.msp
4) Choose the network installation folder (c:\Acro94Img)
5) Install from the network installation folder

Note: If you need to run a repair on Adobe Acrobat 9, these files need to be available. Adobe Acrobat 9 will now see these files as the installation media and will not repair using the original media.

If you do not want to create a network installation point, you can use the following command to install Adobe Acrobat 9:
msiexec.exe /i "c:\Acro9Std\Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard\acrostan.msi /update c:\Acro9Up\AcroProStdUpd910_T1T2_incr.msp;c:\Acro9Up\AcrobatUpd911_all_incr.msp;c:\Acro9Up\AcrobatUpd912_all_incr.msp;c:\Acro9Up\AcrobatUpd913_all_incr.msp;c:\Acro9Up\AcrobatUpd920_all_incr.msp;c:\Acro9Up\AcrobatUpd930_all_incr.msp;c:\Acro9Up\AcrobatUpd940_all_incr.msp
(if your path to the updates includes spaces, put quotes around the first update through the last update msp -Microsoft Patch- file)