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Sandy_ocda
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May 11, 2012
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Flash Installation Per System

  • May 11, 2012
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We're trying to understand our options with installing Flash onto our Windows 7 systems. We normally take the .msi installer and import that into our software deployment server (Microsoft SCCM). We've been deploying Flash with SCCM and using the Per-system unattended option using this command

msiexec.exe /q ALLUSERS=2 /m MSIXJSCK /i "install_flash_player_11_active_x_64bit.msi"

I recently read an article that said you shouldn't install Flash for ALLUSERs or per system. It should be installed per user instead. This seems to make sense from what we're now seeing. Users are calling us saying they need to install Flash when they hit a web site that needs it. We look and see that Flash was already installed with the above command line.

Should we only deploy Flash per user and not per system?

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pwillener
pwillener
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May 12, 2012

I don't know about that; where did you read it?

See the Flash Player Admin Guide at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player_admin_guide.html

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Sandy_ocdaAuthor
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May 14, 2012

I can't find the link I had looked at, sorry. I have been digging into the admin guide, thanks for the link.

I did install Flash on a set of systems, and did it by system. Each time a new user logs in, They still need to install Flash for their profile. Have you seen this behavior before?

pwillener
pwillener
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May 15, 2012

I am not an expert on Flash Player deployment; hopefully someone from the Adobe team can step in here.

Meanwhile can you list what files you have in

  • C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash ?
  • C:\Windows\syswow64\Macromed\Flash ?
  • the contents of the FlashInstall.log files from both above folders.

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