{"id":1081,"date":"2011-03-21T11:38:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T10:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2011-06-28T08:31:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T06:31:55","slug":"software-deployment-how-to-deploy-adobe-flash-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/archives\/1081","title":{"rendered":"Software Deployment: how to deploy Adobe Flash Player?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following <strong>recipe<\/strong> helped me to create a enterprise deployment script to distribute <strong>Adobe Flash Player<\/strong>. I will be using this script as task sequence with SCCM server. Basically you could use these command lines to run from any software deployment solution. The deployment will target Windows 7 Enterprise clients.<\/p>\n<h3>Requirements<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Download the latest MSI version from Adobe&#8217;s website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashplayer\/fp_distribution3.html\">http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashplayer\/fp_distribution3.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ensure you applied for the Adobe Flash Player Distribution License Agreement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/players\/fpsh_distribution1.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Script<\/h3>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\ntaskkill \/f\u00a0\/im iexplore.exe\r\nmsiexec \/i install_flash_player_10.2_active_x.msi \/q\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I used taskkill to stop all Internet Explorer processes. When killing Internet Explorer please inform your users as their sessions will be closed when this script is running. I also renamed the MSI file to make sure I control the version&#8217;s of the Adobe Flash player sources.<\/p>\n<h3>Updates<\/h3>\n<div>After installing the latest version of Adobe Flash Player the <strong>Automatic Updates <\/strong>setting is set to default meaning every week. Every time a flash file is being opened Flash Player will check the latest version. The automatic updates feature can be disabled from Global Notifications Settings panel which can be accessed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/support\/documentation\/en\/flashplayer\/help\/settings_manager05.html\">http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/support\/documentation\/en\/flashplayer\/help\/settings_manager05.html<\/a> but this is a user setting. I fix this before by customizing the Default User for the Windows 7 image but sometimes the profile becomes corrupt and Adobe Flash update is shown.<\/div>\n<div>The make sure the automatic update is disabled for all users <strong>an administrator deployed configuration file <\/strong>can be deployed.<\/div>\n<div>For Windows 7 I created a new text file stored in C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Macromed\\Flash and the file needs to be named <strong>mms.cfg.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nAutoUpdateDisable=1\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>After implementing this file I don&#8217;t need to worry anymore users contacting the helpdesk if they should update their Flash Player. Make sure this file is copied or created during the Adobe Flash player deployment.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kb2.adobe.com\/cps\/167\/16701594.html\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Configure Flash Player auto-update notification<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following recipe helped me to create a enterprise deployment script to distribute Adobe Flash Player. I will be using this script as task sequence with SCCM server. Basically you could use these command lines to run from any software deployment solution. The deployment will target Windows 7 Enterprise clients. Requirements Download the latest MSI version from Adobe&#8217;s website http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashplayer\/fp_distribution3.html Ensure you applied for the Adobe Flash Player Distribution License Agreement here. Script taskkill \/f\u00a0\/im iexplore.exe msiexec \/i install_flash_player_10.2_active_x.msi \/q I used taskkill to stop all Internet Explorer processes. When killing Internet Explorer please inform your users as their sessions will be closed when this script is running. I also renamed the MSI file to make sure I control the version&#8217;s of the Adobe Flash player sources. Updates After installing the latest version of Adobe Flash Player the Automatic Updates setting is set to default meaning every week. Every time a flash file is being opened Flash Player will check the latest version. The automatic updates feature can be disabled from Global Notifications Settings panel which can be accessed from http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/support\/documentation\/en\/flashplayer\/help\/settings_manager05.html but this is a user setting. I fix this before by customizing the Default User for the Windows 7 image but sometimes the profile becomes corrupt and Adobe Flash update is shown. The make sure the automatic update is disabled for all users an administrator deployed configuration file can be deployed. For Windows 7 I created a new text file stored in C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Macromed\\Flash and the file needs to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[639],"tags":[806,618,617,619,11,616],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-deployment-2","tag-adobe","tag-auto-update","tag-flash-player","tag-recipe","tag-script","tag-software-deployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.networknet.nl\/apps\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}