If their attitude toward Acrobat 10 is anything like their attitude
toward IE9 and FF4/5, then they consider it
Adobe's/Microsoft's/Mozilla's responsibility to make their products
work with EBS, not their responsibility to make EBS work with the
rest of the world -- just see the disclaimer at
https://secportal.ebsp.msu.edu/irj/go/km/docs/documents/News/Homepage%20Announcements/30c185b7-8301-2e10-9a9d-8df38db5d37d_0_.xml
, "We are working to determine when Firefox 4 and Firefox 5 (for both
Windows and Mac) and Internet Explorer 9 will support the system
software." So don't hold your breath.
-- dkm
At 7/25/2011 12:00 PM Monday, Jon Galbreath wrote:
>OK, after the recent discussion concerning eBS and Acrobat and it's
>general lack of compatibility with anything that's not already
>outdated, I am working on downgrading everyone from Acrobat Pro X to
>Acrobat Pro 9.4.5.
>
>In the process I've created a new Administrative install from the
>Acrobat 9 Pro media which was sold by the Computer Store and is the
>volume license media I used prior to X using msiexec /a AcroPro.msi
>
>After that I installed the dozen patches to get it up to 9.4.5 using
>msiexec /a acropro.msi /p patch1.msp, etc., until it was
>done. Everything seems to install fine, except that the key doesn't
>work. I have always used 1118-1006-2829-9110-3041-8472 and it's
>worked fine for dozens of installs, except now. If I deploy with a
>GPO it just fails right away. If I try to manually install with the
>patched MSI and the generated transform from the Customization
>Wizard, it rejects it. It also rejects any of the other keys from
>the Adobe licensing site.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Also, is there any timeline on when Acrobat X will be
>useable? Something changed with eBS a couple months back and now
>all forms take hours to complete because it's pegging the CPU at
>100%. The reason I ask is that Adobe FINALLY support deployable
>updates with Acrobat X which makes for timely installs rather than
>having to patch an admin install and then redeploy.
>
>Jon Galbreath, MCSE
>Systems Administrator
>International Studies and Programs
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