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by jkeav634

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Workstations running Windows 2000/NT SP6 on NT Network. I am looking for the easiest way to distribute Adobe Acrobat Reader to my desktops. Some have it, some don't. I would like to put a command in the login script for a silent install on machines that dont have acrobat, and to skip the install on workstations that do.
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by jasmith

First, does Adobe have a way to perform an unattended, silent install? The executable would need to have switches to indicate that its unattended, and to locate the answer file for the prompts.

Once you get past that, find a file that Adobe loads when it installs (it should be a file that is only used by Adobe), have the script look for it, if it finds it, skip the install, if it doesn't find it, initiate the install.

Something like this:

:time
If Exist("C:\Program Files\your program\your program.HLP") goto ENDtime
Endif
Shell "CMD.EXE /C @LDRIVEyour program\your program.bat @LDRIVEyour program\"
:ENDtime

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