App-V and Adobe Reader: Access Denied when opening a PDF file
In many cases virtual applications will talk to physical ones. That’s one of the reasons to keep Adobe Reader installed locally.
But we’ve got an issue with the Reader again.
Launching a PDF file from within the bubble gave an Access Denied error (using a physical Adobe Reader 10.1):
There was an error opening the document. Access Denied
This issue exits only when the PDF file is stored on a “personal folder”, like the Desktop-folder for example. (local User NTFS permissions?).
This isn’t an App-V issue but a Reader X feature called Protected Mode that gave this error.
It can be solved with some basic OSD scripting, but the first step is here to stay: “Know your application”. As Reader X gave this error, we can disable this feature with a registry key. Most of the work is to find out what registry key to set. To keep this short, here is my OSD script that disables Adobe Reader Protected Mode when opening Reader from within a App-V application:
<REGISTRY>
<REGKEY HIVE=”HKCU” KEY=”SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0\Privileged” NOREDIR=”FALSE”>
<REGVALUE REGTYPE=”REG_DWORD” NAME=”bProtectedMode”>00000000</REGVALUE>
</REGKEY>
</REGISTRY>
This goes into the VIRTUALENV-tag.
Happy sequencing!