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Installing Acrobat Quarterly Patch over Security Patch

swampthing
Registered: Jan 6 2009
Posts: 16

We currently have our corporate users base installed with Acrobat 9.3.1. The installation was done by creating an AIP upto and including Acrobat 9.3.0. We then used this as the base and then installed Acrobat 9.3.1 on top of the 9.3.0 AIP install, already installed on the client. I am in a situation in which creating an Acrobat 9.3.2 AIP and then using the recommended msiexec.exe /i ... REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus ... to do the reinstall is not in the cards. Can I some how use the 9.3.0 AIP to reinstall and then apply the 9.3.2 patch? Or use the Reinstall parameters with the 9.3.2 patch (msiexec /p ...msp REINSTALL=All REINSTALLMODE...). Does anyone have any recommendations? I don't have a strong understanding of these parameters and was hoping some might be able to tell if this can be done or not. Thank you

dthanna
ExpertTeam
Registered: Sep 28 2005
Posts: 248
Swampthing,
You need to perform a fresh install of 9.3.0 (msiexec /i.... )
Then for each 9.3.1 AND 9.3.2 you need to perform a patch install which would be something like this:
msiexec /p ...msp REINSTALL=All REINSTALLMODE

So, there would be three msiexec's in a row - one for the main product and one each for the successive patches.

Holler if you have any questions.

-Doug

Douglas Hanna is a member of the Production Print Technology team at Aon.
www.aonhewitt.com

swampthing
Registered: Jan 6 2009
Posts: 16
Doug,

Thanks, I do have an additional question. If I am reinstalling the Base AIP in this case 9.3.0, should I be able to just apply the 9.3.2 Quarterly (/p ...932.msp REINSTALL...) and not bother with the 9.3.1 security patch? From my understanding you should not go over security patches with Quarterly patches? Or does the REINSTALL parameter protect us?
hitanand
Registered: Nov 4 2009
Posts: 29
You can directly go with 932 quarterly patch as it contains the fixes done by 931 security patch.