Acrobat 9.0 to Acrobat 9,4,1 In One Command

I talked about "slipstreaming" the Acrobat 9 updates to an administrative installation point. The downsides are now Adobe Acrobat wants to use the administration installation point as the source disc on repairs (possibly leading to needing to maintain multiple versions) and the admin install points are large (try ~940 MB versus 334 MB for install media).

Instead, I now use a single command: msiexec /i "\Acrobat 9 Standard\Acrostan.msi" /update "\AcroProStdUpd910_T1T2_incr.msp;\AcrobatUpd911_all_incr.msp;\AcrobatUpd912_all_incr.msp;\AcrobatUpd913_all_incr.msp;\AcrobatUpd920_all_incr.msp;\AcrobatUpd930_all_incr.msp;\AcrobatUpd932_all_incr.msp;\AcrobatUpd933_all_incr.msp;\AcrobatUpd940_all_incr.msp;\AcrobatUpd941_all_incr.msp"

A few notes: this has in mind a professional environment in which software (and updates) is stored on an accessible file server (you can do this locally as well though); I had to use quotes because my paths had spaces (like "..\Adobe\Acrobat Updates\"; to find out which updates to use, I had to read Adobe documentation, starting with the newest update (9.4.1 requires 9.4.0, requires 9.3.3, etc); and I placed that command into a batch file saved to the server

Slipstream Adobe Acrobat 8 updates

Want to Slipstream Adobe Acrobat 8 updates?
What you'll need: Adobe Customization Wizard 8 (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3564), Patches, the installation files

Download and the patches to a patch folder
Copy the Adobe Acrobat 8 installation files to a folder (an install source folder)
Install and run the Adobe Customization Wizard 8
Click File -> Open Package, and point it to the folder containing the msi file, example c:\Acro8StdCD\Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard\acrostan.msi
Make any customizations to the installation process
Click Transform -> Generate Transform..., create a folder to contain the administrative installation point, and name the file, for example c:\Acro8Std\acrostan.mst
Run msiexec /a "c:\Acro8StdCD\Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard\acrostan.msi"
Click Next, click Change, select the admin install point, click OK, and click Install. Click Finish.
For each update and in order (8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2, 8.1.3, 8.1.6, etc), run the following msiexec /a c:\Acro8Std\acrostan.msi /p C:\patch\AcrobatUpd810_efgj_incr.msp
Click Next, Install, Finish
When you're done, run msiexec.exe /i "C:\Acro8Std\acrostan.msi" TRANSFORM="C:\Acro8Std\acrostan.mst" on the target workstations
Since you're using a mst file, this method doesn't help as a group policy software installation method. Using the Save package feature of the Adobe Customization Wizard might help with group policy software installations. I haven't tried to see what it can do.

Update: for installation repairs, Adobe Acrobat looks for the originally installed msi/image. If you update the network installation location, an installation that used the older files will not recognize the updated files. To maintain repair functionality, you'd either need to maintain separate install images, copy the files locally, or resort to uninstall/reinstall instead of repair.