Welcome to the Foxit PDF Editor Deployment Toolkit. The toolkit provides details about Foxit PDF Editor's configuration and deployment for enterprise admins.
Audience:
Organizations looking to deploy Foxit PDF Editor to their knowledge workers.
In this article:
- Step 1: Understand your license
- Step 2: Setup the Foxit Admin Console
- Step 3: Get the installer
- Step 4: Customize the installer (optional but recommended)
- Step 5: Deploy
- Step 6: Update
Step 1: Understand your license
Get an overview of Foxit PDF Editor's licensing methods to deploy licenses to activate and authenticate Foxit products. Here's a summary:
| Type of License | License Model | Can it be pre-packaged and deployed? |
|---|---|---|
| Named User | Perpetual | No |
| Named User | Subscription | No |
| Shared Device | Perpetual | Yes |
| Shared Device | Subscription | Yes |
| Registration Code | Perpetual | Yes |
| Registration Code | Subscription | Yes |
Note that the named user license can't be deployed with the MSI/MST. The user must sign in to activate the licenses after the deployment.
Step 2: Setup the Admin Console (Named User only)
The Foxit Admin Console is a Cloud-based portal that serves as a central location for administrators to manage Foxit products/services and entitled users across their entire organizations.
Click here to learn how to quickly set up the Console.
Note: the Console only works with Named User License, if you received a Shared Device or Registration Code type of license, please skip this step.
Step 3: Get the installer
Download Foxit PDF Editor for Windows/macOS.
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Note: your license key controls the Edition (Foxit PDF editor or Foxit PDF Editor Pro, so you can pre-package and deploy the Editor even if your users will have Editor Pro.
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Step 4: Customize the installer (optional but recommended)
The Foxit Customization Wizard tool is a configuration utility for customizing (configuring) the Foxit PDF Editor or Foxit PDF Reader installer before large scale deployment. Go there.
For example, you can disable the Start Page or a specific plugin without having to personalize each copy of the installation.
Step 5: Deploy
Windows Desktop Deployments:
Deploying with a different tool? No problem! Foxit PDF Editor is compatible with any Deployment tool that supports Windows Installers (MSI). Use the command-line parameters to prepare your script.
Windows Virtualized Deployments:
Licensing support on VMs:
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Product |
Named User? |
Shared Device? |
Registration Code |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Citrix XenApp |
Supported |
Supported |
Not Supported |
License-related data is saved in:
which is synced to the VM on login. |
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Windows Terminal Server |
Supported |
Supported |
Not Supported |
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Microsoft App-V |
Supported |
Supported |
Not Supported |
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VMware Horizon |
Supported |
Supported |
Not Supported |
Deploying to a different VM? No problem! Foxit PDF Editor is compatible with any Deployment tool that supports Windows Installers (MSI). Use the command-line parameters to prepare your script.
macOS Deployments:
Step 6: Update or Upgrade
Already deployed and looking to upgrade or update? Foxit PDF Editor will retain all your configuration settings when you update or upgrade it to a new version.
Update (minor to minor)
Update patches (MSP) are available. Click here.
Upgrade (minor/major to major)
Upgrade patches are not available. Please deploy the new version's installer.
