auto update - how to disable prompting?

Question

We prefer to test and deploy new versions of Adobe Flash Player and thus prefer to not have Adobe prompt the end-user for automatic updates. We accomplished this in the past with a setting in mms.cfg and also a registry value. Apparently, sometime in the past year, Adobe must have changed the values that control automatic update behavior.

Does anyone know how to disable the prompting? I need to find a solution as the prompts are driving Service Desk calls.

_maria_ · Answer

Hi,Nothing has changed with the settings you refer to. To disable Flash Player updates complete, enter the following in the mms.cfg file:AutoUpdateDisable=1Deploy to all of your clients at the following location:32-bit OS: C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash64-bit OS: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\FlashIf you use the Flash Player uninstaller to uninstall Flash Player before deploying the new version, then the update options are getting reset to the default (AutoUpdateDisable=0). It's recommended to deploy the mms.cfg file disabling updates with each deployment, to ensure the correct setting exists on the system.--Maria

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