{"id":1405,"date":"2013-04-04T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2013-08-06T10:22:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T09:22:29","slug":"deploying-flash-11-to-the-enterprise-via-gpo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=1405","title":{"rendered":"Deploying Flash 11 to the Enterprise via GPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlashUpdate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1408\" style=\"border: 0px currentColor; margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px;\" alt=\"Adobe Flash Update Prompt\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlashUpdate.png\" width=\"325\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlashUpdate.png 516w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/FlashUpdate-300x241.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a>Adobe Flash Player has to be one of the most valuable bits of software ever created, yes HTML5 is taking over for some things but all the same I don&#8217;t see Flash disappearing anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>As such its important to keep Flash updated in your Enterprise. The one pain I&#8217;m sure everyone has come across at some stage is your end users getting the prompt to update Flash themselves (see right).<\/p>\n<p>So what I will show you how to accomplish in this guide is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obtain and <strong>Deploy<\/strong> a MSI for <strong>Adobe Flash Player<\/strong> to <strong>32 and 64bit PCs <\/strong>that use Internet Explorer<\/li>\n<li>Make it so that your <strong>users do not get Flash update prompts<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few things you will need<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A read of the Adobe Flash Enterprise Deployment Guide &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/flashplayer\/articles\/flash_player_admin_guide.html\">http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/devnet\/flashplayer\/articles\/flash_player_admin_guide.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A licence to deploy Adobe Flash Player (its the only way to get at a MSI that will work) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/players\/flash-player-distribution.html\">http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/players\/flash-player-distribution.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Adobe Flash Tester (it will let you know if your deployment has worked or not) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/software\/flash\/about\/\">http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/software\/flash\/about\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>As part of the setup process you will need to copy a mms.cfg file to some locations on your PCs, to make life simple a sample mms.cfg is included in the ZIP file download below along with the paths to where the files need to be copied to (all is explained in the setup guide).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-downloadmanager\/images\/ext\/zip.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?dl_id=6\">MMS Config File<\/a><\/strong> (131 bytes, 2,247 hits)<\/p>\n<p>32bit Windows &#8211; C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Macromed\\Flash\\mms.cfg<br \/>\n64bit Windows &#8211; C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\Macromed\\Flash\\mms.cfg<\/p>\n<p>So lets get this ball rolling! For the steps on how to mash out Flash to your users follow the screen shot sequence below.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe Flash Player has to be one of the most valuable bits of software ever created, yes HTML5 is taking over for some things but all the same I don&#8217;t see Flash disappearing anytime soon. As such its important to keep Flash updated in your Enterprise. The one pain I&#8217;m sure everyone has come across at some stage is your&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=1405\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[180,72,142],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-adobe-flash","tag-application-deployment","tag-group-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}