I HATE ADOBE! #@$(*&@))$#%&

[Tay]

Has anyone experienced corrupt installs of flash using SCUP? I even went to using the MSI and deploying it manually since I thought SCUP was messing everything up. Over half of my computers are now broken thanks to those @%#%tards at adobe. Now I get calls every few minutes to fix flash. Has anyone experienced this or found a fix? I have to run the flash uninstaller but that won't work most of the time so I have to remove keys in root\installer\products. I created a simple bat file to kill IE, run the uninstaller, then re-install flash. It worked on about 20 comps then it stopped deploying with some IIS error 206. I'm about to lose my freakin mind!

[Peter33]

Actually i went back to the application model for deploying the flash player. There is no real benefit in using SCUP for this product, because i need an up to date package for OSD anyways.

Just create two apps for plugin and AX. Then use the exe file with -au 0 switch.

Also add the 1041 exit code to the success codes. For some weird reason Adobe was using this to mark needed reboots.

 

Did you try to reinstall the plugin with the exe and the -au 0 switch on one of these computers? This is usually also fixing broken installations.

[Tay]

Do you happen to know the silent switch for the exe?

[Peter33]

Yes, sorry. Forgot to add this to my post. The switch is -install

[Tay]

Nice! Thank you!

[Tay]

What do you use for detection method?

[Kingen]

I don't like SCUP either, but there is a MSI install for flash player that you could use: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html

[Peter33]

I am using a registry detection.

 

Hive: HKEY_LOCALMACHINE

Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Adobe Flash Player ActiveX

Key: SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Adobe Flash Player Plugin

Value: DisplayVersion

Data Type: String

 

Make sure that the 32Bit on 64Bit Systems checkbox is set and the Operator value equals the current version of the flash player.

 

On the next update disable both applications, then replace the sources. update the version in the detection rules, update your distribution points and enable the application again. Should not take more than 5 minutes.

[Tay]

I don't like SCUP either, but there is a MSI install for flash player that you could use: http://www.adobe.com...tribution3.html

 

The MSI is what messed up my environment I believe. I have to clean out the registry before the installer works. But the exe installer works every time from what I can see. Going to try deploying the exe and see what the success rate is. I might just have to use a script to kill IE first though if problems continue. Working on some stupid issue with my win 7 DP's right now though. For some reason it doesn't like deploying my scripts.

 

Thanks for the help Peter.

[Kingen]

Sad to hear that it have caused problems for you and your users , i missed that you had tried the MSI, it have always worked fine for me.

 

"Over half of my computers are now broken thanks to those @%#%tards at adobe. Now I get calls every few minutes to fix flash." Have you noticed Adobe in this? Maybe it's some bug? What OS doe's your computers run?