Goodbye Adobe Flash!

[Zoom7000]

Goodbye Adobe Flash! It was fun playing all the games, but maybe not from an IT admin perspective having to deploy update, after update, after update and endless worries of zero day exploits!

 

Here's the End of Life information for anyone who might need to know more!

[hardtailstar]

This is going to annoy a lot of teachers who use flash based websites that haven't been updated in years!

[mikeprice]

I am waiting for the flood of posts from those of you still working once term starts again

 

you have my sympathy!!!

[AliG]

This is going to annoy a lot of teachers who use flash based websites that haven't been updated in years!

 

It will be the end of the world for our science teachers when boardworks stops working, i did suggest doddle science as a replacement but since that i also found out it still has some flash content.

[Zoom7000]

This is going to annoy a lot of teachers who use flash based websites that haven't been updated in years!

 

One of the biggest challenges is gonna be PhET, which apparently is a charity and community based collection of resources and thus don't necessarily have the capacity to update everything, albeit they have moved a lot to HTML5.

[Andrew_C]

One of the biggest challenges is gonna be PhET.

 

Oh a**e. My teachers love and use PHET a lot.

[Squelch]

Been telling anyone who will listen for the past 18 months that the end is nigh. Can't wait for the accusations that it's my fault that they can't use *insert random ESSENTIAL FOR MY TEACHING flash site here* and that I am blocking teaching.

[3s-gtech]

Bye Flash! Thanks for the fun times, pre-2010. No thanks for the updates upon updates, vulnerability and enabling staff to never update their schemes of work.

 

I never enabled it when I rolled out Chromium Edge so most users at ours are used to it not working. A couple were using IE to get to the content still.

[Jobos]

Is there an easy way to remove flash as most of our classroom machines have flash NPAPI that was installed with activeinspire?

[paulkerton]

This is going to annoy a lot of teachers who use flash based websites that haven't been updated in years!

 

They've had three and half years of notice.

[Michael]

The removal tool's available here and will be published in WSUS early 2021.

 

This doesn't remove the NPAPI version, only the version built in version in the OS.

 

It'll be interesting to see if Microsoft bundle this with a cumulative update (would be handy).

 

Adobe have published guidance notes here It's years old, but should still apply.

[Michael]

Running this command should do the trick -

 

\\server\share\uninstall_flash_player.exe -uninstall

 

 

I can confirm it removes both versions. The next task is to see what applications it breaks before mass deploying!

[SteveB_NI]

According to our ICT department one of their taught modules still uses Flash animation and they required Flash Studio MX to be installed recently 🙈🙈🙈

[mikeprice]

According to our ICT department one of their taught modules still uses Flash animation and they required Flash Studio MX to be installed recently 🙈🙈🙈

 

If only there was some way they could have known!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

when they say 'taught modules' -is there an exam board board that insists on this

 

or is this

 

by any chance

 

their own choice

 

just askin'

[3s-gtech]

Not a problem. You can still have Flash Studio/Suite/Creator installed. Just not the player.

 

May make seeing what they’ve authored rather tricky, though I think it can author as a self contained exe(?) which should still work.

[mikeprice]

Not a problem. You can still have Flash Studio/Suite/Creator installed. Just not the player.

 

May make seeing what they’ve authored rather tricky, though I think it can author as a self contained exe(?) which should still work.

 

Still not very goo forward thinking teaching

 

my thought were always that I should be teaching the kids to pass the exams - AND have useful skills and knowledge for the real world

teaching them to make flash based systems is not really looking at what will help the kids in the future

 

or maybe I am just too idealistic and should be more cynical???

[Arthur]

Google Chrome 88 released: RIP Flash Player and FTP support

 

Google has released Chrome 88 today, 19th January 2021, to the Stable desktop channel, and it includes security improvements and the long-awaited removal of Adobe Flash Player.

 

With this change, it will no longer be possible for organizations to use Enterprise policy to enable Flash Player again in Google Chrome.

[Michael]

Here's the script I use to remove all versions of Flash -

 

\\server\share\Flash\uninstall_flash_player.exe -uninstall

wusa \\server\share\Flash\windows10.0-kb4577586-x64.msu /quiet /norestart

 

Some applications (such as older versions of ActivInspire) complain about the absence of Flash, but other than that, nothing to report.