Flash.....ahhhhhhhgghhhh....

[CHR1S]

Do other packages assign ok? not sure if you were saying that worked ok or not.

[sted]

I do the same and it works beautifully except for a couple things. Firstly I need to change something as even though it writes a text file it doesn't seem to check said file when it's run again. The other is just a cosmetic issue. The Adobe uninstaller command line app will not run silently so I get a maze of command prompt windows as the app runs. I've yet to look into it indepth. If anyone has any ideas feel free to provide them.

 

heres my script if it helps i dont seem to get any user intervention it just runs

 

rem @ECHO OFF
REM --- Check for an existing installation of Flash Player
if exist "c:\flash100452.txt" goto _End
REM --- Deploy to Windows 2000/XP/2003
"\\server\packages$\flash shock mar 10\uninstall_flash_player.exe" /s
"\\server\packages$\flash shock mar 10\flash_player_10_active_x.msi" /quiet
copy "\\server\packages$\flash shock mar 10\flash100452.txt" "c:\flash100452.txt" /y
REM --- End of the script
:_End

[ricki]

Hi Witch

 

Dont think you are on your own with this one. We have had problems tooooooooooo. I have found the msi's don't like previous versions and they bug out. I have also found that some versions dont uninstall properly when I delete the group policy. On my network the policies should uninstall if they fall out of range. I am having to manually run the uninstall tool on the affected computer and then gpupdate and then group policy will install it. I have also found that some of the problem I am having is because the msi has been deployed and then upgraded to fix a problem from the adobe site. When the gpo tries to uninstall it cannot as its a later version.

 

Dont I just love flash.

 

Richard

[witch]

Right, I shall be back in tomorrow and I know that everyone will be yelling at me that Flash doesnt work -so...

Just before the hols I removed the msi and indeed the policy, and then ran the uninstaller on one machine. Then I installed the last version (that had been fine on the machines before this debacle) and it STILL will only work for the administrator.

Something fundamental has changed somewhere!

The kids arent back tomorrow (I'm not supposed to be but I thought I'd better go in whilst they arent there) so I can get to alll the machines.

Has anyone come up with any ideas or suggestions? I will go back through the posts and try everything again, especially the script. Here's hoping

[kennysarmy]

We are moving from flash installed on the ghost "image" to rolling out via MSI.

Currently rolling out 10.1.53.64

 

We were having loads of problems before with it just breaking but are having relatively few problems now with flash.

 

When we did have issues our solution was always.

Uninstall flash from add/remove

Run the flash uninstaller

Reboot.

Go to the adobe site and install the latest version.

 

This usually sorted the issue.

 

I do like the look of the batch file install though - may investigate that as a backup route.

Thanks sted!

[sted]

We are moving from flash installed on the ghost "image" to rolling out via MSI.

Currently rolling out 10.1.53.64

 

We were having loads of problems before with it just breaking but are having relatively few problems now with flash.

 

When we did have issues our solution was always.

Uninstall flash from add/remove

Run the flash uninstaller

Reboot.

Go to the adobe site and install the latest version.

 

This usually sorted the issue.

 

I do like the look of the batch file install though - may investigate that as a backup route.

Thanks sted!

 

ive just found later versions of the msi deployed direcly via group policy cause issues had a suite of pcs until i removed it pretty much any page caused ie to crash and reload the page. Steve jobs is right for once flash sucks (adobe make some of the poorest software out there)but unfortunately its a necessary evil

[kennysarmy]

What is the latest MSI that people are using to roll out?

Mine is 10.1.53.64

 

I see though that the latest version is

10.1.82.76

 

If I go here:

Adobe - Adobe Flash Player

and download the MSI it does nt appear to be the the MSI for 10.1.82.76

 

Can anyone shed any light on this?

[kennysarmy]

anyone???

[Edu-IT]

The latest version is Flash Player 10.1.82.76.

According to this post it did have the old version last month but they changed it.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3050908

 

[kennysarmy]

Sorted - not sure what was going on last week....

 

Thanks.