I am new to SolarWinds Patch Manager, but have been managing workstations using SCCM, WSUS, and other products like Dell KACE for years. I am familiar with the various ways to push out Adobe Reader updates (or I thought I was).
I am a little confused as to why SolarWinds is making the .MSP updates for Adobe Reader XI products (and Adobe Reader DC) available individually and was wondering whether I was missing something...
In my experience, the MSP files are used for "slipstreaming" (term used loosely) the new quarterly or security updates into your base package for whatever product you're using. So, for example, with the Adobe 11.0.13 MSP file, I can use:
msiexec /a AcroRead.msi /p <nameofmspfile.msp>
Then, once my AIP is patched with the new MSP, I just upload it to wherever and deploy.
I have never seen a way to install a MSP file directly onto an already installed Adobe Reader system. When I tried to just deploy the MSP, it says "Not applicable" as I've seen multiple people in the forums reference.
So, if we can't use them for anything, why are they even there?
Please let me know what I'm missing...