At Percona’s web store you can order your MongoDB database support needs in minutes. No hassles, no fuss, just pick and click. Pay online with a credit card. Handle your MongoDB database support now!
COURSE of the MONTH
12 days, 9 hours left to enrollBecome a Premium Member and unlock a new, free course in leading technologies each month.
Solved
allow non administrators to install adobe flash
Posted on 2011-03-04
Is there way to allow non administrators to install adobe flash? I'm have to constantly install adobe flash updates because our users do not have admin rights. I tried to publish the adobe flash msi file in group policy. However, when a non administrator tries to install this published app it says that you cannot install it because you don't have admin rights. I am able to get adobe flash to install as an assigned app via group policy but I don't want to do it this way. Thanks for your help.
[X]
Welcome to Experts Exchange
Add your voice to the tech community where 5M+ people just like you are talking about what matters.
- Help others & share knowledge
- Earn cash & points
- Learn & ask questions
-
3
2
2- +2
9 Comments
Active today
Other than the way you have described, there is no way I know of to instal Flash Player without being adminstrator. I usually turn off updates to Flash so it doesn't come up in normal work.
... Thinkpads_User
... Thinkpads_User
Active 1 day ago
and here are some of the rules that are used(including adobe flash)
http://privilegeforum.scriptlogic.com/rules-exchange.aspx
http://privilegeforum.scriptlogic.com/rules-exchange.aspx
Active today
There is a small work around if you are up for it.
Swiff player is a stand alone flash player, give it to each of your users and they wont need to use adobe unless online.
http://www.globfx.com/products/swfplayer/
or Applian FLV Player
http://www.applian.com/flvplayer/
I have also noticed the frequent requests from Adobe for updates for it's flash player. Seem endless.
Swiff player is a stand alone flash player, give it to each of your users and they wont need to use adobe unless online.
http://www.globfx.com/products/swfplayer/
or Applian FLV Player
http://www.applian.com/flvplayer/
I have also noticed the frequent requests from Adobe for updates for it's flash player. Seem endless.
The flashplugin for browser is actually a single dll file (NPSWF32.dll). Exactly where it has to be placed depends upon which browser you are using, and where it is installed.
See: http://my.opera.com/tamil/blog/how-to-install-flash-player for Opera.
For firefox the path should be C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins (source: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/internet/firefox/install-flash-plugin-manually-in-firefox-on-vista/ )
For IE it will be Program Files/Internet Explorer/Plugin
So, you can easily create a self extracting archive (SFX) or an installer to do this.
References: http://www.ehow.com/how_5052562_install-flash-player-administrator-rights.html
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/11/06/how-to-install-flash-player-without-admin-rights/
See: http://my.opera.com/tamil/blog/how-to-install-flash-player for Opera.
For firefox the path should be C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins (source: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/internet/firefox/install-flash-plugin-manually-in-firefox-on-vista/ )
For IE it will be Program Files/Internet Explorer/Plugin
So, you can easily create a self extracting archive (SFX) or an installer to do this.
References: http://www.ehow.com/how_5052562_install-flash-player-administrator-rights.html
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/11/06/how-to-install-flash-player-without-admin-rights/
pallab_sonai, I followed the instructions from the ehow website on how to do this but I don't know how to download the archived Flash Player plugin from Adobe's website. I can download flash as an msi or exe but I cannot figure out how to download it as an archived (xpi) file. How do I do this?
Thanks for your help.
Thanks for your help.
Is this what you are looking for?
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer-win.xpi
Otherwise, I think you can extract the exe using Universal extractor.
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer-win.xpi
Otherwise, I think you can extract the exe using Universal extractor.
Priveledge authority works great for allow non administrators to install adobe flash updates if you are using windows xp. However, it does not work with Windows 7 because of the UAC I believe. Does anyone know of a way to modify the priveledge authority rules so that it will work with Windows 7? Thanks.
Featured Post
The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017 is the premier event for the diverse and active European open source database community, as well as businesses that develop and use open source database software.
Question has a verified solution.
If you are experiencing a similar issue, please ask a related question
Update 21-May-2015: I temporarily removed the source code to make major changes to the program. Regards, Joe
INTRODUCTION
This article presents a solution to a question (http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Installation/Q_28396542.html)…
This article focuses on how to remove password security from multiple PDF files by Adobe Acrobat program. Sometimes it is essential to access the stored data items and to print, edit as well as copy content from Portable Document Format files in abs…
Viewers will learn the basics of using Ableton Live's advanced sampler instrument, Sampler.
Load new Sampler into an empty MIDI track:
Select a sample and drop it into sample window in Sampler:
Adjust pitch if necessary with Root Key setting:
…
In this seventh video of the Xpdf series, we discuss and demonstrate the PDFfonts utility, which lists all the fonts used in a PDF file. It does this via a command line interface, making it suitable for use in programs, scripts, batch files — any pl…
- Document Management
- Document Imaging
- Programming
- Adobe Acrobat
- Scripting Languages
- Printers and Scanners, *Scripts, *batch, *PDF
Suggested Courses
Course of the Month12 days, 9 hours left to enroll
777 members asked questions and received personalized solutions in the past 7 days.
Join the community of 500,000 technology professionals and ask your questions.