Disable Acrobat.com Services | Acrobat, ReaderProducts affected
Disabling Acrobat.com Services | Acrobat, Reader
In enterprise environments, administrators often choose to disable all or part of the product's integration with Acrobat.com services. There are several ways to accomplish this configuration:
- Windows:
- Customization Wizard: Use the Wizard's UI or registry modification feature to set the requisite keys prior to installing the product. If you already have a configured and installed application, consider dragging and dropping its registry to the target directory to leverage settings you already have deployed. There are some differences between the settings for 9.x and 10.x as described below. For links to the latest downloads and documentation, go HERE.
- GPO: You can distribute and enforce settings via group policies.
- Macintosh: Use the plist configuration method you already have in place.
- Any other scripted or configuration method you prefer.
For more detail about preference configuration, download the Administrator's Information Manager (AIM) which contains the Preference Reference (a dictionary of several hundred registry and plist-level preferences) and other resources.
Note: In the tables below, all of the preferences reside at [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\(product name: Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader)\(version: 9.0 or 10.0)\Workflows
To disable acrobat.com features, set the following values to 0:
| Feature | Preference(s) |
| All acrobat.com access, including shared reviews that use acrobat.com | bEnableAcrobatHS |
| All acrobat.com access, except shared reviews on acrobat.com | EnableRTCAuth, bEnableRTCPart, bEnableShareFile |
| Only Shared Review and Forms Distribution workflows using Acrobat.com | bEnableDocCtrInit |
| All Shared Review participation, including non-acrobat.com workflows | bEnableWorkflowPart |
| Everything, including non-acrobat.com workflows | EnableRTCAuth, bEnableRTCPart, bEnableShareFile, bEnableWorkflowPart |
Selectively Disable Services
The following keys disable specific acrobat.com services. Both of these keys can be disabled and locked by creating the same key at [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\(product)\(version)\FeatureLockdown]
| Feature | Preferences | Notes |
| Create PDF online | bCreatePDFOnline | Reader only. |
| Create Buzzword document | bCreateBuzzwordDoc | Deprecated for 10.x and later |
Doc ID
(cpsid_50894)
Last updated
2011-05-19
OS
Windows XP
Windows (All)
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