Adobe Reader DC and Group Policy (Windows 10 + 2012)

[BSpendlove]

Adobe Reader DC making me cry inside because if something isn't working then I won't sleep. We have pushed out a few policies for Office, Chrome and Adobe which all work. Only to find that Adobe doesn't provide a policy to disable the 'Hello to easy file access' on first startup (surprise surprise)....

 

 

Now, administrative templates from adobe will get rid of the splash screen and such, although this next screen needs to go.... Although many students won't be using PDF's (year 3 to 6), I want to provide a 'zero' touch experience for a first user logon (or even a user that decides to use PDF following months to come)...

 

 

I've found that deleting the AcroApp and FTDialog Subkeys in the HKCU brings back this screen after going through this process, but adding these subkeys (with a dummy key inside) doesn't do the trick. I would think that the computer policy 'Show messages when I launch reader' set to disabled would handle this issue but no it doesn't...

 

 

I've also got an issue on the Windows 10 laptops where I needed to apply a custom xml for file associations to stop 'Set Adobe DC for default PDF....' because of the 'zero' touch experience. Although this method doesn't work for first logon users since it only applies when relogon unless I change the OEMDefault....xml in system32 which doesn't seem necessary. 

 

 

 

Has anyone had to deal with this problem, or do you not use wet dog pdf reader like this one?......

 

Edit: (IGNORE)  Also tried HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\FeatureLockDown with key bToggleFTE set to 1 (dword) and no luck...

 

 

EDIT2:

 

Okay so, it seems adding bToggleFTE to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\FeatureLockDown does work but not on all laptops (gpupdate /force twice) so I will report in a few hours if this solves my issue.