I have about 300 PCs that I administer remotely. These are all Windows 7 32-bit systems (don't worry, they'll be upgraded to Windows 10 by the end of the year) which I can ONLY access via ssh command line. Any updates I run are via batch script. These systems were very locked down for our users via Group Policy. We used to have the system tray (aka the "notification area") hidden via Group Policy. Due to a new app, we had to unlock the notifications area, but now we are constantly getting "you need to update Adobe Reader" even though when reader was originally installed, it was set to "manually update" because I've been manually updating it all along. The whole point of my choosing the "manually update" option was so that our users wouldn't be annoyed and think they need to update their systems. All these systems need to match and we don't want a hodgepodge of systems out there.
We don't want our users to see these update notifications. It will only interfere with their work and they will let us KNOW they want them turned off. I tried using a Powershell command:
Set-Service -Name AdobeARMservice -Status Stopped -StartupType Disabled
And that worked - for about 15 minutes and then the notifications were right back in the system tray again.
How do I turn these off via either a cmd line command, Powershell, or a reg key?