User-friendly Adobe Acrobat Add-in Removal for Microsoft 365

dan-snelson
Valued Contributor II
Provide users with detailed feedback while removing Acrobat’s Add-in from Microsoft 365

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Background

Each time Adobe Acrobat Pro is installed or updated, the Acrobat Add-in is silently added back to the Microsoft 365-related User Content Startup folders.

The Add-in relies on external dynamic libraries, which we purposely disable by setting DisableVisualBasicExternalDylibs  to true:

Unless non-Microsoft extensions are being used, set this value to true via a Configuration Profile to improve security.

This causes users to observe error messages in the following applications:

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft PowerPoint

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dan-snelson
Valued Contributor II

If you’re similarly impacted, please consider providing community feedback to both Microsoft and Adobe.