Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Documentation for all versions Adobe Flash Platform Runtime Releases - Announcements and release notes for Adobe AIR and Adobe Flash Player: (Last update 2011!?) Security bulletins and advisories: Download Flash Player Uninstaller: Installer: Windows 8 & 8.1 Windows 8 & 8.1 includes Flash for IE and the activex plugin will fail with an error of 1031. To use the one combined package, note the OS checks that exclude Windows 8 from the activex installer Adobe Flash Player 16 Package written to keep in-line with previously documented working solutions which should give you the ability to just download the latest and update version number to make the jump to future versions. The files you download from Adobe are not named the way this package requires. You must rename the NPAPI plugin from install_flash_player.exe to install_flash_player_%MAJORVERSION%_npapi.exe and the ActiveX plugin from install_flash_player_ax.exe to install_flash_player_%MAJORVERSION%_active_x.exe, e.g. Install_flash_player_16.0.0.235_npapi.exe and install_flash_player_16.0.0.235_active_x.exe. The uninstall check for the NPAPI plugin changed slightly for version 16, but it's otherwise the same as 15.

The following process has been tested and confirmed as working with Adobe Flash Player 18.x and SCCM R2. It does the following tasks: Installs Flash Player ActiveX (For Internet Explorer) silently.

Package for WPKG 1.2.1 or higher Version 14.0.0.176 of the Flash Player was only released for NPAPI and version 14.0.0.179 was only released for ActiveX, so this package supports checking different versions of each plugin. As of 16.0.0.235 no further mismatched-version releases have been made. Nul ' /> to your flash install script. Disable Automatic Update dialog in Adobe Flash Player When Using MSI and EXE Installers Flash Player automatically checks with adobe.com to see if an updated version is available and if there is it presents a dialog prompting the user to upgrade. To disable this update check and prompting you can do the following: • if it doesn't already exist, create a directory%WINDIR% system32 Macromed Flash (%WINDIR% SysWOW64 Macromed Flash for 64-bit system) • if it doesn't already exist, create a file there called ' (this file can also be used to deploy other settings) • add an entry in this file: AutoUpdateDisable=1 This configuration can be performed by WPKG using the following. Either you can deploy this using WPKG as part of the Flash Player installer (Section 1.1 or 1.2), or create a separate package for this setting which would allow you to deploy updates to this file separately to the Flash Player itself. This file will prevent current and older versions of Flash from auto-updating.

When using EXE Installers You can use the '-au 2' installation option to disable automatic updates when using the EXE-based installer, but not the MSI-based installer. Mms.cfg will be created for you in the normal location. Older Versions Adobe Flash Player 11.2 through 15 Package written to keep in-line with previously documented working solutions which should give you the ability to just download the latest and update version number to make the jump to future versions. The files you download from Adobe are not named the way this package requires. You must rename the NPAPI plugin from install_flash_player.exe to install_flash_player_%MAJORVERSION%_plugin.exe and the ActiveX plugin from install_flash_player_ax.exe to install_flash_player_%MAJORVERSION%_active_x.exe, e.g. Install_flash_player_16.0.0.235_plugin.exe and install_flash_player_16.0.0.235_active_x.exe.

Flash Player 12 onwards features 'Universal 32-bit and 64-bit installers for Mac and Windows browsers'. Full version happy wheels. Package for WPKG 1.2.1 or higher Version 14.0.0.176 of the Flash Player was only released for NPAPI and version 14.0.0.179 was only released for ActiveX, so this package supports checking different versions of each plugin. As of 16.0.0.235 no further mismatched-version releases have been made. Adobe Flash Player 11.1 Starting with Flash Player 11 there is a separate download available for 64-bit Windows.