Ninite Blog

Acrobat Pro/Standard Updates in Ninite Pro

We’ve just added support to update Adobe Acrobat Professional and Adobe Acrobat Standard in Ninite Pro. This has been one of the most requested features from our professional users.

• This supports both version 9 and 10 of both Acrobat Professional and Acrobat Standard.
• It can’t install new versions of Acrobat, only update existing ones. If Acrobat is not installed you’ll get a ‘Skipped (not supported: Not installed, updates only)’ status.
• Our /disableautoupdate switch is supported for Acrobat, so you can turn off Acrobat’s annoying update popups for your users and manage their updates with Ninite Pro.

Acrobat updates are only in our Pro version, but if you want to check it out all you have to do is send us a quick note asking for our one week free trial.

Thanks for using Ninite!

We’ve just improved Ninite One to make it incredibly easy to use Ninite on all the machines on your network.

There’s now a “Show remote options” link in the lower left of the Ninite One window. Click it and Ninite will scan your local network for accessible machines. Then you can select some machines and install, update, or audit the software on them. All with one click!

We have more documentation on our help site.

We’ve also made it easier to set some advanced options and switch between the install, update, and audit modes. You can do that with the little menu triangle to the right of the “Install” button.

As always, there’s no need to update or redownload your copy of Ninite One to use the new features. Just run it and start managing the software on your network.

Piriform

Cross-posting this from our twitter account:

Piriform’s CEO asked us to remove their apps, we’re working on fixing it. Sorry for any inconvenience. We’ll keep you updated here. Thanks!

No more news at the moment, but we are working on it.

InfraRecorder

InfraRecorder is now on Ninite.com.

There were a ton of user requests for it, so we added it. Get it direct with our easy urls at http://ninite.com/infrarecorder.

It is also available in Ninite One.

Keep those app requests coming, and thanks for using Ninite!

At Last: Shockwave is now on Ninite

We’ve finally added Shockwave to Ninite.com.

After hearing about numerous sites and applications that still require it, we decided to reverse our earlier position on Shockwave. There was particularly high demand from educational users.

Shockwave is available for home users at http://ninite.com as well as for professional users and in Ninite One. As always, Ninite updates are immediate and transparent so there’s no need to download new Ninite One .exes.

Ninite One now supports .NET 4

A few Ninite Pro users let us know that they’re starting to see (mainly enterprise) apps that require .NET 4 instead of .NET 3.5. So we’ve added support to Ninite One to install .NET 4.

If you’re using the manual selection it’s listed down at the bottom under Extras. Alternatively you can use the /select switch like this: NiniteOne.exe /select “.NET 4” /silent report.txt

For now we’re keeping .NET 3.5 as the only option in the free web-based version of Ninite. It’s still the right choice for most users and a big reason we run the free site is to make getting software incredibly simple. Part of this means paring down choices and just doing the right thing. I know most of my friends would get really confused if they had to pick between 3.5 and 4.

Thanks for using Ninite!

After getting requests from some Ninite Pro users to support older versions of apps we’ve created a limited http://ninite.com/oldversions page. Right now it includes Adobe Reader 9 and Firefox 3, which were the main apps people wanted older versions of. This is only available for Pro users right now and should be considered a beta feature. We’ll try to keep these apps available as long as people use them and as long as the publishers continue to host those old versions.

The older versions are only available at that page as standalone installers and not included in Ninite One at the moment. This is due to the internal implementation of the /updateonly switch and also an open question about what users would expect (should firefox 3 be updated to firefox 4 or the latest 3.x version?).

Anyway, let us know what you think, and thanks for using Ninite!

Speccy is now on Ninite

Users requested it and we added it.

Speccy is an attractive system information viewer that displays a ton of information about your PCs hardware. You can now get it on http://ninite.com under the utilities section, or just get it directly with our easy-to-share urls at http://ninite.com/speccy

Keep those app requests coming in, and thanks for using Ninite!

PDFCreator

We’ve just added PDFCreator to Ninite after getting a number of requests for it. Some people specifically pointed out that they prefer it over CutePDF, another PDF printing tool we have on Ninite. Give it a try next time you need to export something as a PDF.

Ninite Pro/Ninite One Trials

We’ve seen an explosion of interest in Ninite and Ninite Pro from enterprise users recently.

To make it easier to evaluate Ninite (and pitch it to the boss/purchasing dept.) we just built a Trial Mode for Ninite One. All you have to do is ask us and we’ll send you a link to a time-limited, feature-complete version of Ninite One. Don’t forget to include your company email address in the feedback form.

It’s the full Ninite One, so you can try out /silent mode, the /select switch, offline installers, the download cache, /updateonly mode, and all the other great Pro features described in our documentation. Take it for a spin, kick the tires a bit, then subscribe to Ninite Pro.

It’s really great to see Ninite helping so many people save time at work and we’re happy to see that word about Ninite is spreading fast. Thanks for using Ninite!