Which Windows OS and browser are you running? The Windows OS version and browser on your workstations will determine what configuration is necessary. If you’re running Windows 8 or 10 and only using Edge/Internet Explorer, there’s nothing else you need to do. Flash updates are handled as part of your normal Windows updates. If you’re running Google Chrome, as part of Chrome updates. If you’re still running Windows 7 with Internet Explorer and/or Firefox (including on Windows 8/10), you’ll need to either manually install updates (which isn’t ideal) or configure the updater to install them for you.

Manual configuration When installing Adobe Flash using the exe installer, you will be prompted to select your update preference. If you use the “Allow Adobe to install updates” option, the Flash updates will install automatically. Adobe Flash Player exe installer prompting for update preference during install If you go to the Task Scheduler, you can see that there is a new Adobe Flash Player Updater task that is scheduled to run daily. The task runs with System privileges.

Do you & how do you allow non-admins to update adobe flash. Elevate their privileges. Documentation and then just update the admin install with the.

That means that even users without Administrator rights can have Flash updates installed silently without receiving prompts or requiring IT assistance. Adobe Flash Player Updater task in Task Scheduler to install updates If you selected “Notify me to install updates” for “Never check for updates,” you can go to the Control Panel and access the Flash Player Settings Manager.

Click the Change Update Settings button, approve the User Account Control (UAC) prompt, and change the setting to “Allow Adobe to install updates.” Enable automatic silent updates in the Flash Player Settings Manager The Enterprise gotcha The only problem with enabling Adobe Flash silent updates at install time is if you’re a large enough organization that you’re using a tool like the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) for OS deployments or System Center Configuration Manager. Silent installs of Adobe Flash using the exe installer and installs using the MSI installer don’t enable silent updates and, instead, use the “Notify me to install updates” option.

If you’re an organization that doesn’t give end users Admin rights, you probably don’t want your customers being prompted to install something... Especially if they won’t be able to perform the install.

Default update setting for Adobe Flash using the MSI installer Push out the configuration with Group Policy Adobe Flash’s update configuration can be controlled with a text file named mms.cfg. To push the configuration out to a large number of systems, we can use Group Policy Preferences to copy the file from a network share to the local system.

First, we’ll need to create a text file named mms.cfg. In the text file, copy/paste the following text. AutoUpdateDisable =0 Next, save the file to a network share. For small files like this, I typically like to keep them in a folder in SYSVOL. Because the SYSVOL folder is replicated across all Domain Controllers (DCs), it ensures the client will always have access to the file. In my example, I’ll use domain sysvol domain files Adobe_Flash mms.cfg. In the Group Policy Management Console, edit a Group Policy Object (GPO) that applies to your computers.

Go to Computer Configuration >Preferences >Windows Settings >Files. Right-click in the open white area on the right and choose New >File. Very strange - I ran the update task again and now NPAPI isn't even listed as being installed however the plugin files are actually updated in the flash folders. Firefox doesn't complain either. I'm not sure if I just needed to wait a bit or if the updater needed to run twice.

Looks fine now though. I do have a followup question. Is there a way to change the time the updater scheduled task runs? Currently it's after 7pm but many of our users use laptops that they take home. I'd like to run this around noon instead. Ford Nx. I think this article is a little incomplete, while the auto updating is a nice feature, do you really want 1000's of systems calling out to adobe to pull 200+ megs of data each?

The Flash admin guide has a method to build a in house update server. This can be set up on any http server and is fairly simple. What we do is have a scheduled task that checks for new Updates from adobe, if then downloads and populates the web server.

I can have 1000's of machines updated with in 24 hours (or sooner) and only download one small package from adobe! On a Windows 2012 domain with Windows 10 PCS, I cannot get past some obstacle. The path to the cfg is good, as I can open it from a test PC. However, the file is not being transferred to the appropriate Macromed/Flash folder. I've double-checked everything over and over again. I also tried pushing the cfg file to the Public Desktop without success; no errors in Group Policy. Ensured that Windows Firewall is not the culprit and also disabled a/v; nothing.

The cfg file is good, if I move it manually it gives me the results I want. I just can't make GPP push it. I was giving this some thought in regards to the enterprise problem.

If the user had the rights to install Flash, unless there was policy change, they’ll have the rights to update it. What comes into question is, if they don’t select the recommended setting to allow Flash to be updated automatically. At that point when they are notified for an update, they may contact the ‘help desk’ for support. Furthermore, say you want to force onto them – that flash does auto update. You go ahead and set the GP pref and push the file.

You still have to deal with creating a scheduled task(for everyone).because I’m guessing/assuming that task event won’t exist if the user didn’t choose to let flash update automatically. Anyway, enjoyed the article. David, thanks for posting! You found the right spot. 🙂 The main problem with your script is the usage of Enter-PSSession. This cmdlet is for interactive sessions where an admin manually connects to a single remote computer and then types some commands on the remote console. In your example, stop-service will stop the service on the local computer, not on the remote machine.

What you need instead of Enter-PSSession is Invoke-Command. You can execute a script on multiple remote computers like this: Invoke-Command -ComputerName PC1,PC2,PC3 -FilePath C:myFoldermyScript.ps1 Of course, you can also read the computer names from a text file. I explained Invoke-Command. You probably also don't need psexec to enable PowerShell remoting. If the computers are domain members, I would. If you really want to, you also have to open the firewall ports. The articles explain all possible ways of how to enable remoting Let me know if you figured it out.

Teximus Prime wrote: Haven't looked at Local Update Publisher, but it looks interesting. Forgive the ignorance, but when adobe comes out with the updates, do I have to repackage the latest full download on adobe.com or are there smaller update only files I can repackage? I've slipstreamed the updates into the old ones and it's worked for me. I followed the instructions on how to create the admin share install location from Adobe's documentation and then just update the admin install with the new update and push. We use a reg file deployed via group policy to disable the Acrobat updater. We then publish the application via group policy and apply any updates to that admin install point. For Flash we publish via group policy again, but disable the Flash updater by creating a file called mms.cfg in C: windows System32 Macromed Flash with the line AutoUpdateDisable=1.

I have put the reg mods and vbs script in the attachment. This means we control how and when clients get the updates and users are not bothered with updates they cant install (they are all normal users, not power or admins). I have a login script for these. I used to use Group policy, but the Adobe stuff is quirky.

Every few releases they change the way they package their installers, and I got tired of trying to keep up with it. They also introduced a bug that broke group policy for Flash.

My script checks to see if the current version is already installed, does a silent install, then tweaks the registry to remove things like automatic update checks, etc. It works well, and it much more stable from release to release.

By on November 6, 2010 in - Last Update: November 21, 2012 Lets say you are currently working on a computer where you have standard user rights. This means that you cannot install software that requires elevated privileges, nor that you can perform operations that require admin rights. Many software programs for instance require administrative privileges during installation. Adobe's Flash Player needs elevated rights during installation, if the user has only standard rights it cannot be installed; At least not the standard way. Lets assume you have access rights to use a computer at school, work or a public place, maybe on a company laptop or at a school library. A web browser is available but the Flash plugin is not installed so that you cannot access Flash based content sites such as Youtube.

Please note that this method works perfectly fine if Firefox is the web browser used on the system. It is unlikely that Chrome or Opera are installed on the system, but workarounds exist for these browsers as well.

If you are a Firefox user and want to use Flash but do not have administrative privileges do the following: • Download the latest version of the Firefox Flash plugin from the official Macromedia website. Your best option is to right-click the download link and select Save As.

• Extract the contents of the downloaded file to a folder on the local system. You may need to change the file extension to zip if you have only access to the standard Windows unzipper.

• Move the two files NPSWF32.dll and flashplayer.xpt into the Firefox plugin directory. The plugin directory is located in the root directory if you are using a portable version of Firefox, if Firefox is installed is is located in the profile folder. Easiest option to find out where the folder is located is to enter about:support in the address bar. This works for Firefox 3.6 and up.

• If no Plugins folder exist create the folder and move the two Flash Player files into the folder. • You can now enjoy Flash based contents.

Be aware that the plugin is not auto-updating itself. You need to make sure to keep it up to date manually. You have a few additional options that you may want to explore. If you can run portable software, you may want using Google Chrome portable, since the browser ships with the Flash Player plugin natively. The same is true for other portable browsers.

Just configure the browser at home so that it includes the Flash plugin and run it from the computer where you have limited access rights. I'm not sure if there is a way for Internet Explorer as well.

If anyone has some insights let me know in the comments.