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You shouldn't need it. &nbsp;Most likely came along with the Desktop Experience feature.<br />
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If you remove that feature you can still add the standard desktop icons by using:<br />
&quot;%Systemroot%\system32\run<wbr />dll32.exe&quot;<wbr /> shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL<wbr /> desk.cpl,,0
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You shouldn't need it.  Most likely came along with the Desktop Experience feature.

If you remove that feature you can still add the standard desktop icons by using:
"%Systemroot%\system32\rundll32.exe" shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL desk.cpl,,0

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Hi John,<br />
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Thanks for advice :)
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You are very welcome and I was happy to help.
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You are very welcome and I was happy to help.

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Hi,<br />
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it is installed and has security vulnerabilities so i need to know whether is can be removed or if there is a business requirement to keep it.<br />
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Could you please assist me on this.
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Hi,

it is installed and has security vulnerabilities so i need to know whether is can be removed or if there is a business requirement to keep it.

Could you please assist me on this.

is Adobe flash required on Exchange servers ? and also the business reason behind it

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is a cross-platform multimedia and software platform used to embed animations, video, and interactive applications into web pages and desktop and mobile applications and games. Flash displays text, vector and raster graphics to provide animations, video games and applications. It allows streaming of audio and video, and can capture mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera input. The ActionScript programming language allows creation of interactive animations, video games, web applications, desktop applications and mobile applications.

Adobe Flash

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Security is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. The main goal of security is protecting assets, and an asset is anything of value and worthy of protection.  Information Security is a discipline of protecting information assets from threats through safeguards to achieve the objectives of confidentiality, integrity, and availability or CIA for short. On the other hand, disclosure, alteration, and disruption (DAD) compromise the security objectives.