Flash Player ActiveX addon missing when installing using the MSI installer

[getinto-pc]

My organization had ask for a .msi for IE, so we could do a silent install of the Flash Player. with the .msi provided install by Adobe we could do the silent install on the clients, but the addon is missing on IE so we can't make the application work. The "default" .exe adds the addon on IE, so maybe something on the .msi?

[moderator: edited title to accurately reflect issue being reported]

[_maria_]

The MSI and EXE both deliver the same Flash Player payload.

Please provide the following:

1. How exactly are you deploying Flash Player, using the MSI installer?
2. What software deployment tool are you using?
3. What operating system are the client machines running?
4. What permissions (admin, standard) to the user's have on the client machine?

Thank you in advance.

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Maria

[filehippo]

How to install Flash Player on Windows

In order to install Flash Player on Windows Server 2012 you need to install the Desktop Experience Feature. To do this, do the following:

• Go into server manager.

• Click add roles and features:​
• Press next until you reach the “Features” page.
• Tick the box “Desktop Experience” which is hidden under the “User Interfaces and Infrastructure” feature:
• You will then have to accept the installation of some other features to support the installation of desktop experience
• The features are installed and the server is rebooted:

Or if you prefer, you can install with the simple but so effective Windows Powershell command:

Install-WindowsFeature Desktop-Experience

The reason I wanted to have access to Flash Player on this particular server was so that I could access the vSphere Web client, which uses flash. Hope this helps someone.

If you are looking for instructions on how to Install Flash Player on Windows Server 2016 – please follow this updated guide.