Problems with Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64 Deployment on Terminalservers
In my Testing Scenario i have got persistent Problems with the Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64 Installation.
I´ve got Windows Server 2003 SP2 Terminalserver with Internet Explorer 7, Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 installed and want to update to Adobe Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64.
I wrote a VB Script which copies the FlashPlayer10110264.exe to a local Directory on the Server, then executes the Executeable like this, cmd /c C:\TEMP\FL_SW\FlashPlayer10110264.exe -install.
Then the script reads Adobe Flash Player Version with the following Reg Key.
Version = WshShell.RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Macromedia\FlashPlayer\CurrentVersion")
Afterwards the Autoupdate Options will be disabled with copying a custom settings.sol file to the Default User Profile.
RC = RunCommand("Robocopy.exe C:\TEMP\FL_SW " & Chr(34) & "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Application
Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys" & Chr(34) & " settings.sol")
At the whole process the Terminalserver is set to Installation Mode with "cmd /c change user /install".
After this Deployment everything seems just fine, the appwiz.cpl (control panel / software) shows the right Adobe Flash Player installed.
But if i log on with a different test user and want to check the Flash Player Version with following URL http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ i displays that i´ve Version 10.0.45.2 installed.
First i thought it had to with the Terminalserver Shadow Key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\Install\Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayer) which contained a String with the old Flash Player Version 10.0.45.2, but even when i deleted this key nothing changed in the behaviour.
I searched the whole Registry for the String 10.0.45.2 but found nothing.
I also downloaded the uninstall_flash_player.exe and uninstalled the Version 10.0.45.2 with "uninstall_flash_player.exe -uninstall" and again deployed the Version 10.1.102.64 with my VBScript but nothing changed.
In my testing scenarios the deployment of Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64 to Window XP SP3 Clients with Internet Explorer with nearly exactly the same VBScript succeeded.
The Versiontest with several Users on http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about also succeeded.
I read the Adobe Flash Player Administrion Guide but found nothing regarding to the Behaviour on Windows Terminalservers.
(http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/flash/articles/flash_player_admin_guide/flash_player_10.0_admin_guide.pdf)
I´m afraid in this case Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64 fails in my change management, once again.
Does anyone experienced the same behaviour?
best regards, Florian S. Kornmüller