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Go to http://www.adobe.com/ca/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html and download the windows ActiveX MSI installer, and the Plug in installer

Also download the latest uninstall_flash_player.exe.

Use the Powershell Application Deployment toolkit.

Create 2 folders for your files : Files and SupportFiles and add with the PSADT toolkit files.

Copy to the Files folder: install_flash_player_22_active_x.msi, install_flash_player_22_plugin.msi, and uninstall_flash_player.exe.

In the SupportFiles folder create and add an mms.cfg file with the following settings:

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AutoUpdateInterval=0

AutoUpdateDisable=1

SilentAutoUpdateEnable=0

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This is to stop auto updates.

Edit the Deploy-Application.ps1 powershell script.

Add the following sections:

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##*===============================================

##* VARIABLE DECLARATION

##*===============================================

## Variables: Application

[string]$appVendor = ‘Adobe’

[string]$appName = ‘Flash Player’

[string]$appVersion = ‘22.0.0.209’

[string]$appArch = ”

[string]$appLang = ‘EN’

[string]$appRevision = ’01’

[string]$appScriptVersion = ‘1.0.0’

[string]$appScriptDate = ’08/10/2016′

[string]$appScriptAuthor = ”

##*===============================================

##*===============================================

##* PRE-INSTALLATION

##*===============================================

[string]$installPhase = ‘Pre-Installation’

## Show Welcome Message, close Internet Explorer if required, allow up to 3 deferrals, verify there is enough disk space to complete the install, and persist the prompt

Show-InstallationWelcome -CloseApps ‘iexplore,chrome,firefox’ -CloseAppsCountdown 120 -BlockExecution

## Show Progress Message (with the default message)

Show-InstallationProgress

## <Perform Pre-Installation tasks here>

## Uninstall the previous version

## Write-Log “Uninstalling previous version”

Execute-Process -Path ‘uninstall_flash_player.exe’ -Parameters ‘/uninstall’ -WindowStyle Hidden

Start-Sleep -Seconds 240

Remove-File -Path “C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg”

Remove-File -Path “C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg”

Remove-RegistryKey -Key HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Macromedia\FlashPlayer\SafeVersions -Recurse -ContinueOnError:$True

##*===============================================

##* INSTALLATION

##*===============================================

[string]$installPhase = ‘Installation’

## <Perform Installation tasks here>

Execute-MSI -Action Install -Path ‘install_flash_player_22_active_x.msi’

Execute-MSI -Action Install -Path ‘install_flash_player_22_plugin.msi’

##*===============================================

##* POST-INSTALLATION

##*===============================================

[string]$installPhase = ‘Post-Installation’

## <Perform Post-Installation tasks here>

## Execute-MSI -Action Install -Path ‘FlashConfig.msi’

Copy-File -Path “$dirSupportFiles\mms.cfg” -Destination “C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg”

Copy-File -Path “$dirSupportFiles\mms.cfg” -Destination “C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg”

##*===============================================

##* PRE-UNINSTALLATION

##*===============================================

[string]$installPhase = ‘Pre-Uninstallation’

## Show Welcome Message, close Internet Explorer with a 60 second countdown before automatically closing

Show-InstallationWelcome -CloseApps ‘iexplore,chrome,firefox’ -CloseAppsCountdown 60

## Show Progress Message (with the default message)

Show-InstallationProgress

##*===============================================

##* UNINSTALLATION

##*===============================================

[string]$installPhase = ‘Uninstallation’

# <Perform Uninstallation tasks here>

# Use the adobe uninstaller to avoid the 1603 error

Execute-Process -Path ‘uninstall_flash_player.exe’ -Parameters ‘/uninstall’ -WindowStyle Hidden

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In SCCM the Application is a script install:

Installation Program: “Deploy-Application.exe” -DeployMode “Silent”

Uninstall Program: “Deploy-Application.exe” -DeploymentType “Uninstall” -DeployMode “Silent”

Detection method is the msi of the activex.

Additional Notes:

If you try to uninstall the old version of Flash by using /x {GUID} the install of the new flash will fail with a 1722 error . There is a custom action in their install msi that looks for the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Macromedia\FlashPlayer\SafeVersions key and locks it. Adobe does this to stop you from trying to install older versions of Flash. The only way to uninstall it is to use the uninstall_flash_player.exe utility which unlocks the registry key. I have a powershell command added to the script to make sure the key gets deleted but the new msi installer will still display the 1722 error (1603 in SCCM).

Update: Suspecting there was a timing issue between the uninstall and the registry key still being locked, I added “Start-Sleep -Seconds 240”  to the script which fixes the problem. Four minutes wait may be overkill but I wanted to be sure.