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Suppress Adobe Product Improvement Program Pop-Up by Using Microsoft Group Policy Preference or AppSense Environment Manager

I implemented this a few years back, when I needed to eliminate any unneeded pop-up to my users. In this case, it was for Adobe Reader. Newly created profiles will have this automatically pop-up when they launched Adobe Reader  for the first time. Adobe Product Improvement Program - Help Improve the Adobe Reader Experience. The screen also can be triggered by going to Help | Improvement Program Options... These steps will help to disable the Improvement Program Options menu, and consequently suppress the pop-up. Note that it requires registry editing, so be extremely careful. Note that the steps mentioned are for Adobe Reader 11. If oy used different version, ensure your key path refers to correct version (SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\11.0) Using GPP :   Launch GPMC , and go to target GPO.   Edit the policy, and navigate to Computer Configuration | Preference | Windows Settings | Registry , right click at Registry , hover to New and click

Failed to poll Now : Not enough server storage is available to process this command

A few weeks ago I went to AppSense training. It was very good, very informative and very intense - 5 days were not enough to be honest as it covers all 4 components of DesktopNow (AppSense Management Console, Performance Manager, Environment Manager, and Application Manager). So back to the topic - I received this error while trying to pool the policy : Failed to poll Now : Not enough server storage is available to process this command. A bit digging, I managed to find why it happened, and how to resolve it. According to Microsoft : "This issue may occur if the IRPStackSize registry entry on the server is set too low." Now, what is IRPStackSize ?  According to Microsoft :  The IRPStackSize parameter specifies the number of stack locations in I/O request packets (IRPs) that are used by Windows 2000 Server, by Windows Server 2003, and by Windows XP. You may have to increase this number for certain transports, for media access control (MAC) drivers, or for fi