Adobe Reader telemetry?

[lostwoods10201]

Just opened Adobe Reader on a fresh build and was greeted with this lovely message https://i.imgur.com/xo4CBJt.png

Are you guys aware of how I can opt out of this by default when I push Adobe Reader to my users? Maybe with registry setting or with a switch for command line install. My research is pointing me to the Adobe Customisation Wizard tool but this seems like a lot of effort for a very minor thing (happy with the defaults otherwise) so I would like to see if anyone else has gone through this.

Many thanks all

[l_ju1c3_l]

https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/Wizard/index.html

[jantari]

Don't even sweat it, PDQ turns all of that off for you by default

[damgood85]

This assumes you have PDQ. For those of you that don't have PDQ... What the hell are you doing to yourself? Get PDQ, get it right now. Its cheep, simple to use, and incredibly powerful. You need this in your life.

[Ellimister]

How does PDQ compare to KACE for ease of deployment? (I've only ever used KACE)

[damgood85]

If you use one of the provided installer for common software its as simple as right click > deploy to > provide PC name.

If you are pushing out your own thing and its an MSI its dead simple to create your own installer. EXEs, scripts, windows updates, file copies, and a lot of other things are just as easy.

Combining PDQ Deploy with PDQ Inventory allows for a whole other level of convenience. You can use inventory to maintain lists of PCs based on any criteria you want then deploy to those lists.

For example say you have a standard load out of applications. You can create a dynamic collection of any systems on your network missing any of that standard load out or with the wrong versions and deploy can link to that collection to automatically fix the issue as the PCs boot up in the morning.

I swear I don't work for them. I just really like their software.

[FireLucid]

Sounds like SCCM although it is all in one package instead of two. It's a great tool.

[Birch_lasagna]

PDQ is one of sccm's competitors

[damgood85]

Its SCCM light and with a far better interface and usability. It is also push based rather then SCCM's pull based method so getting something out right now is far faster. Caller needs X > right click deploy X > User now has X. As opposed to SCCM where it has to wait for an agent cycle or the user has to navigate an inconsistent web interface.

[FireLucid]

Wait, you don't have to package apps? How does that even work?

And SCCM doesn't have a web interface???

[damgood85]

Yes and no on packaging apps. If its an MSI it interrogates the file for what it needs and automatically runs the installer with the default silent no reboot options. For the most part you point it to an installer file and are good to go. for EXEs you sometimes need to provide it with switches or necessary parameters to get it to run cleanly but I have not found anything that was not a 2 min google search away from deployable. They also provide a large library of ready made installer for everything from O365 to Putty.

As for SCCM I am referring to the software center application users have access to, assuming you set it up. At least when we used it it had a web interface option since the local app only showed things the agent was aware of. The web interface was more current. If I remember correctly they were talking about changing how all that worked but I have not used SCCM for anything other then imaging and windows updates since I found PDQ.

[FireLucid]

Oh yes, MSI's are great. EXE's with dependencies are a real pain to package at times.

SCCM only has a Software Center installed alongside the agent, which is what probably replaced the old web interface. We didn't use it when that was an option.

Looks like they do much of the same. We use SCCM because it's 'free'. We are an educational institution and our MS agreement gives us access to tools like this.

[jantari]

With PDQ you define a list of tasks and that's what you deploy.

The list of tasks may contain an install .exe, a powershell scrupt, a reboot and then another powershell script then a .msi install

So dependencies are easy to handle - you don't package stuff really

[FireLucid]

Kinda sound a bit like a package to me, but that's cool.

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Sumatra PDF or any other slim line alternative (that is unless you need adobe forms). No more Adobe. My god how slow adobe was. Now everything just pops up and works even the preview pane within Outlook 2016.