So, you’re trying to build a deployment share, and your users are going to need Adobe Reader. Chances are you may have done this before by putting Reader in your image. However, with MDT there is a much better way. Be smart and use an MSI, create a custom transform file, push it optionally at deploy time and use the msiexec to log the whole process.
Sound Complicated? It’s actually pretty easy. Best of all, the next time a new version of Reader comes out, you can just import it into your list of apps in MDT rather than rebuilding a new image, or worse yet, roll out outdated versions of Adobe.
This is going to involve five basic steps:
- Download Reader from Adobe
- Download & Install the Adobe Customization Wizard
- Extract the exe so we can use the MSI
- Customize the Installer
- Import into the Deployment share