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Adobe Reader 9 and Adobe Acrobat 9 do support the use of group policies for configuring these applications. However, I cannot find anywhere that Adobe provides an ADM file with the settings and descriptions that allow these group policy settings to be easily configured and applied. So i made my own ADM file, which I now share with you. i have tested most of these settings and they work very well.

To get your own ADM file, create a new TXT file and name it Adobe9.adm. Then copy all of the text below out of this posting and paste it into your ADM file. Enjoy!

; Administrative Template for Adobe Acrobat 9.0 and Adobe Reader 9.0
; Rick Patterson
; Version 1.0
; 1/23/2009

CLASS MACHINE

CATEGORY !!Reader

POLICY !!Checkforupdatesatstart
	KEYNAME "Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\AVGeneral"
            EXPLAIN !!Checkforupdatesatstart_Help
                VALUENAME "bCheckForUpdatesAtStartup"
                    VALUEON NUMERIC 1
                    VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
        END POLICY

POLICY !!DonotdisplayEULA
            KEYNAME "Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\AdobeViewer"
            EXPLAIN !!DonotdisplayEULA_Help
                VALUENAME "EULA"
                    VALUEON NUMERIC 1
                    VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
        END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableDisplayPDFinBrowser
            KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\Originals"
            EXPLAIN !!EnableDisplayPDFinBrowser_Help
                VALUENAME "bBrowserIntegration"
                    VALUEON NUMERIC 1
                    VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
        END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableAdobeUpdater
            KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
            EXPLAIN !!EnableAdobeUpdater_Help
                VALUENAME "bUpdater"
                    VALUEON NUMERIC 1
                    VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
        END POLICY

POLICY !!EnablePurchaseAdobeAcrobat
            KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
            EXPLAIN !!EnablePurchaseAdobeAcrobat_Help
                VALUENAME "bPurchaseAcro"
                    VALUEON NUMERIC 1
                    VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
        END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableDigitalEditions
           KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
            EXPLAIN !!EnableDigitalEditions_Help
                VALUENAME "bShowEbookMenu"
                    VALUEON NUMERIC 1
                    VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
        END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableProductImprovementProgram
            KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
            EXPLAIN !!EnableProductImprovementProgram_Help
                VALUENAME "bUsageMeasurement"
                    VALUEON NUMERIC 1
                    VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
        END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableCreateBuzzwordDocument
            KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
            EXPLAIN !!EnableCreateBuzzwordDocument_Help
                VALUENAME "bCreateBuzzwordDoc"
                    VALUEON NUMERIC 1
                    VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
        END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableCreateAdobePDFUsingAcrobatcom
            KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
            EXPLAIN !!EnableCreateAdobePDFUsingAcrobatcom_Help
                VALUENAME "bCreatePDFOnline"
                    VALUEON NUMERIC 1
                    VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
        END POLICY

POLICY !!EnforceDisplayPDFinBrowser
            KEYNAME "SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\FeatureLockdown"
            EXPLAIN !!EnforceDisplayPDFinBrowser_Help
                VALUENAME "bBrowserIntegration"
                    VALUEON NUMERIC 1
                    VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
        END POLICY

POLICY !!EnableDocumentMessageBar
            KEYNAME "S