r/sysadmin • u/TheJesusGuy Blast the server with hot air • Sep 14 '24

My business shares a single physical desktop with RDP open between 50 staff to use Adobe Acrobat Pro 2008. Question

I have now put a stop to this, but my boss "IT Director" tells me how great it was and what a shame it is that its gone. I am now trying to find another solution, for free or very cheap, as I'm getting complaints about PDF Gear not handling editing their massive PDF files. They simply wont buy real licenses for everyone.

What's the solution here, and can someone put into words just how stupid the previous one was?

Edit - I forgot to say the machine was running Windows 8! The machine also ran all our network licenses and a heap of other unmaintained software, which I have slowly transferred to a Windows 10, soon 11 VM.

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u/GamerGypps Jr. Sysadmin Sep 14 '24

To be fair Adobe is absolutely stupidly expensively because it doesn’t have proper competitors and they milk that as much as they can.

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u/Afraid-Ad8986 Sep 14 '24

Well yeah but that isn’t an IT problem. We just install it. Their installer now is slick as shit.

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u/grnrngr Sep 14 '24

Their installer is bloatware nowadays.

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u/livinitup0 Sep 15 '24

Their installer has never been more hands off for IT and it’s wonderful tbh