Adobe Flash Player ActiveX Enterprise Deployment.
Another day, another Adobe related software update. Today I recieved a security bulletin notifying me of a critical update to the Adobe Flash player software. When this happens, I usually have a handful of days to prepare the update for mass deployment through ConfigMgr. The new version (10.1.53.64) is available through the Adobe website, and if you have applied for a distribution license, you can grab the MSI right now!
Unfortunately, Adobe still have not taken the time to create a reliable MSI installer, so we are still left with having to workaround the little annoyances. The main issue I face is getting Adobe Flash Player to disable its automatic update feature, since we do not want our clients going out to the big bad interwebs and pulling down all sorts of untested updates.
To remedy this, I create a text file named mms.cfg, which needs to be placed into %windir%\System32\Macromed\Flash. The cfg file only needs to contain one line, shown below.
AutoUpdateDisable=1
Now we have the config file created, all that’s left is to create a transform file (MST) based on the downloaded MSI, which drops the config file into the location above during install. For those of you who aren’t familiar with transforming a MSI file, you can execute the following command to do so.
msiexec.exe /i "install.msi" TRANSFORMS="transform.mst" /qb RebootYesNo="No" Reboot="ReallySuppress"
A new blog design to get me going.
I never thought I’d actually settle on a design that I didn’t get bored with immediatly after uploading it. I’ve been trying to get away from the dirty grunge look I had going with my previous theme New Black, and this couldn’t be more different.
I’ve decided to go for clean and crisp in the hope that I will now concentrate more on the content than the design. Although saying that, there will be some nice little tweaks coming up in the near future. For a starters, I haven’t got any photos here. That will change once I’ve found a suitable place to host them. Also, you may have noticed that my old blog entries have vanished! Unfortunatly, I’m waiting for my host to permit me to upload more than 2mb files. Once that’s done, I can upload my exported posts and we can be back on track.
Anyway, that’s enough for now. More general musings to follow.