One solution could be to disable the automatic update of the blocklist
of Firefox. Then Firefox does not know that flash is outdated.
Am 19.04.2016 um 00:08 schrieb Wolf, Daniel:
If deploying updates to computers is beyond your organization’s abilities,
here’s the administration guide for Flash, which details how to enable
automatic updates.
He said he cannot do AUTO-Updates, which I perfectly understand, because
some enterprise-procedure are simply incompatible with this concept, and
most auto-updaters are crap anyway.
Create a text file named mms.cfg and put the following in it:
AutoUpdateDisable=0
SilentAutoUpdateEnable=1
And place it in the following locations with Group Policy Files Preferences:
"%windir%\system32\Macromed\Flash\"
"%windir%\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\"
That way Flash will update itself and you never have to worry about it being
disabled by Firefox.
One of the problems with this is that it appears to be only triggered
when Flash is actually being used. If one computer does not use it for a
while, the old version remains installed.
Another problem is that it always comes too late. Not only that it
checks at most once per week. Also when it finally does check, the old
version will keep being used the whole day, and only then it will switch
to the new version.
Also he wrote they are using virtual machines, so they might reset them
to a snapshot before each use. This is what I am doing on my computer.
This means that "auto-update" would *never* update, because it always
runs when it is too late. In this case auto-update is definitely not an
option, they can only deploy a new virtual machine image.
By the way due to the shortcomings of the automatic updater, a manual
deployment of an updated image can actually reach the client machines
earler than the "automatic" update would.
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