Sorry on the delay in response but what is the harm if we set Enable Adobe 
Flash Protected Mode to disabled?  I need to provide business ramifications in 
this option..?


Ashley Shreves
Manager, I.T.



-----Original Message-----
From: Enterprise [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wolf, 
Daniel
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 10:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox 45 deploy with Flash + Java 
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The automatic update solution is great for companies who are incapable of 
deploying a Flash update before Firefox blacklists it.

The Flash auto-updater is a scheduled task that by default runs once an hour 
every hour, regardless of the browser.

I'm not sure why a company who has virtual desktop infrastructure doesn't have 
SCCM or another tool to deploy Flash updates.

Daniel Wolf

-----Original Message-----
From: Enterprise [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Klaus 
Hartnegg
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 6:45 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox 45 deploy with Flash + Java 
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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 Then Firefox does not know that flash is outdated.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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