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I’m renaming this blog to managingflash.wordpress.com
Managing Flash is even worse than it first appears. Recent Safari updates now disable older versions of the Flash plugin. It wasn’t clear how “old” a version had to be to be disabled. Today I got an...
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Flash Mob
My recent posts on deploying Flash Player 11.3 and 11.4 have generated a lot of comments. Some frequent themes: “Why are you bothering with all this? Just deploy the embedded package and be done with...
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Flash Dance
In comments on my previous post here, TGB makes some interesting points: While you’re not wrong that Flash Player deployment isn’t ideal, and it should be as easy as dragging and dropping a pkg, I...
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Flashpoint and Counterpoint
TGB is back with more interesting comments. Thanks for your comments, TGB! Let me respond to a few: Vendor-supplied DMGs are standard for distribution, however they are not standard for deployment. You...
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New Year, New Flash Post
Today Adobe released yet another Flash update. If you need to deploy it in an enterprise environment and head to http://get2.adobe.com/flashplayer/ to grab it, you might be surprised that what you...
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Still more on Flash Installers
A follow up from today’s earlier post: some commenters mention that the disk image they downloaded contains a package like “normal”. I’ve found at least five versions of the 11.5.502.146 installer: All...
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Adobe CS6 Serialization fun
Recently (starting some time after the first of the year), we’ve started having users call and tell us that their formerly working install of Adobe Photoshop CS6 was now asking for a sign-in: We could...
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Adobe CS6 Serialization problem links
Here are some links related to the Adobe CS6 Serialization issue: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4979720 https://twitter.com/Adobe_ITToolkit...
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Fix for Adobe CS6 activation issue
Adobe has posted some information and a fix for the recent issue with Adobe Photoshop CS6 registration/activations: http://blogs.adobe.com/oobe/2013/01/32767-days-left-but-whos-counting.html This...
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Adobe reserialization tool
Here’s the tool I promised earlier: https://github.com/gregneagle/makereserializationpkg Enjoy.
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XProtect Updater Redux
In the past 24 hours, Apple has released an update to the XProtect malware definitions. If your Macs have received the latest XProtect definitions, Adobe Flash Player will be blocked unless it is the...
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Flash Player 20 and Analytics
Flash Player was a frequent topic on this blog in the past. But Adobe has improved its packaging, and tools like AutoPkg have taken away much of the pain around deploying frequent Flash Player updates....
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MacSysAdmin 2016
Information and registration for MacSysAdmin 2016 is available: http://macsysadmin.se/2016/Home.html October 4-7, 2016 in Gothenburg, Sweden, MacSysAdmin continues to be a fantastic event for the Mac...
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