Today we’re going to dive into something that admins have been doing for years: deploying Adobe Reader via Group Policy. You would be hard-pressed to find a company that doesn’t use PDFs, and while options for viewing and editing PDFs have greatly increased, the official Adobe Reader application remains the go-to PDF viewer for most companies.
Unfortunately, Adobe Reader is prone to high-risk security vulnerabilities. To help mitigate the risk of using Reader, one must be sure to keep the application up-to-date. Group Policy allows us to not only deploy the application, but also to push out new versions as they are released. Working out how, exactly, to accomplish that can take a bit of work, but this tutorial should help to clear things up.