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May 26, 2011
Question

roll out bugfixes without the need for Admin Rights!

  • May 26, 2011
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Hello!

We have an existing, working AIR application developed for a client. the project is AS only and the air application needs to access to the harddisk as well as the web.

The client has outsourced the whole IT department and IT support to another company - therefore, whenever something needs to be done on the employees computers that require admin rights (like installing new software), an expensive process has to be started that goes through this IT support company.

the problem is, that if we release bugfixes or updates in functionality for our application through a new air file, the update process requires admin rights although the new version has the exact same access rights as the already installed one.

The client wants to drop our project if we can't come up with a solution of how we can rollout bugfixes and feature updates without the need of admin rights for the update.

How can we achieve this? Requiring Admin Rights for the first Installation is ok - but not for subsequent updates.

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3 replies

June 6, 2011

no one?

chris.campbell
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June 13, 2011

Unfortunately, this is as designed.  For more details, please see the following blog post:

http://blogs.adobe.com/simplicity/2009/04/should_air_support_non_admin_app_install.html

Since this appears to be an important issue to you, I'd like to recommend casting your vote for the following feature requests:

Auto-updating an AIR application without admin rights

Installation of Adobe AIR apps without having administrative privileges

Thanks,

Chris

June 14, 2011

Thank you!

I knew this article already. I found now a way arround it using remote plugins and Loader.loadBytes()

the help states that the interface for this API might change in the future. what would this mean for my clients if they update to a newer version of AIR? would the application just stop working?

thanks