Adhoc remote deploying Acrobat Reader for Windows

The Acrobat Reader are only downloadable in .EXE format and it is not very admin friendly for deployment. I've been tinkering for a while looking for ways to get the .MSI version of the Acrobat Reader. Some googling return me with ways to get the .msi installer by extracting the exe file.

It is quite a hassle to get the correct .msi file for every release.Lucky enough today while I was browsing through the Administration guide from Adobe, I found that they do actually provide a link ( ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/ ) to download the .MSI version.

Tools Recommendation

PS Tools (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649)

The PS Tools from Sysinternals come in very handy. It is free and it help out a lot !. I'll be using the PSExec.exe tools from the PS Tools to complete this task. This programs allow us to execute program remotely :D

Assume that you already have a general mapped network drive or access to the hidden share($) on the remote pc.

Copy over the MSI to the drive, it wouldn't work in with a UNC path (tried once).

psexec.exe \\remotepcname msiexec.exe /i pathtosoftware.msi /passive

it will remotely install the software and will return error code 0 if successfull.

** You can use this tools for uninstallation, dns flushing & installing software.