Mass deploying Adobe Flash Player updates | 9 comments | Create New Account
May 05, 2017 The file, named Install Adobe Flash Player.app.zip, will appear to be an Adobe Flash installer (Say what you will about Flash, but there are still a lot of people that have to use it for school or work). From Malwarebytes: If the app is opened, it will immediately ask for an admin user password, which is typical behavior for a real Flash installer. Simply download the latest Flash Player to your Mac. Right click on the Adobe Installer and view the Package Contents. From there navigate to the Resources folder. Inside there you will see an Adobe Flash Player.pkg file you can simply drag and drop into your enterprise tool set or even push out via ARD Admin.
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I have and do this when needed already. But a useful hint and much better way than using crappy Adobe installers/uninstallers which have a mind of their own and having to touch every machine. Just had the classic licensing issue on CS3 install yesterday(get this quite a few times a year !) Tried all my tricks with FlexNet etc no joy, so used the clean up script, reinstalled still no dice. Cleaned again followed by manual clean......hit the 1.5 hours mark now. Reinstall , it works but updates don't (adobe updater in loop), reset the permissions on adobe folders which had been set incorrectly by installer and eventually machine was back in action.
This technique definitely works with munki; and should work with any deployment software that utilizes standard Apple installer packages.
Or you could just deploy Chrome which keeps its own copy of A-Flash up to date. But, yes, OI VEY on the Adobe CS (or anything) installs. I go round and round on this with a friend at Adobe. As an Admin, products should use the platforms installers so I learn and use one on windows, one on mac, two or so on linux, etc. I don't want to learn and script a deployer for each and every epithetical piece of software I have to install.
Yeah but every company likes to write their own installer. I used to support Autodesk products, and they have their own set of deployment tools, but at least they used MSI files so it was pretty easy to network deploy Auto CAD, Revit, Inventor and so forth because you just needed to add them to the payload and the rest was done via MSI. Adobe installers are pure junk and I hate them. /angry sys admin fist!
As such we are not allowed to deploy Chrome at quite a few of my sites anyway due to 'what is going on under the hood' ;-)
I have not yet played with the Adobe deployment tools either. AAME is suppose to allow you to chop up and serve all your beloved Adobe products through enterprise deployment methods. I have had a terrible time deploying CS4, but CS3 when we had it ran smoothly. Being able to suppress the Adobe installer does wonders, as if a user changes their resolution to a non supported one Adobe CS products will still installer. Where as with the Adobe installer it will freak out and halt the install. Maybe you could look into using AAME, but if I can get an installer I will use that. Otherwise your options are to capture a new flash install via a tool like Composer, or write some script to remove previous version and install this from the command line. I just found this method to be super easy because all you need to do is grab the installer out of the Flash Package and you can toss away all the other Adobe junk.
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I've gone through hell deploying PhotoShop. When Adobe started using Apple's Installer package format they included a post-install application to create the key files. According to the documentation, I could supply arguments for the application to enable key creation on all the machines I was installing on. But as it turned out, if I ran the post install from anything other than the disc it would crash with some memory error in the console. Adobe was of no help, so I had to manually install it on 30+ machines because it would not install without the post-installer.
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with latest flash installer, you can select not to check or notify for updates. using the package strip method from above, is there a way to script this after the install?
My understanding of the Adobe licence is that deployment to clients (as opposed to installing a single personal copy) requires a distribution licence. The good news is that this is free:
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and gives access to mkpg installers and deployment guides and briefings.
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The bad news is that one has to reapply this licence annually, which seems rather petty to me.