Manage "Flash Player Settings Manager" in IT Environment

[HockeyFan21]

Hello Community,

Is there an IT Administrators guide or document for managing and configuring the "Flash Player Settings Manager" Control Panel app for version 10.3?  We have approximately 1000 systems that we need to manage and push the software to and basically want to turn off the "check for updates automatically" and "Check Now" Updates features.  I would like to be able to configure the Settings Manager applet in the configuration of Flash Player before deployment so that we don't have to manually configure each workstation post install (which will never happen anyway...too many systems ).

Flash Player updates will be managed through our Altiris Notification server to keep all systems up to date.

Any help in this direction would be greatly appreciated! 

[chris.campbell]

Unfortunately, while you can disable checking for updates with the mms.cfg file, the UI on Windows does not reflect the changes that the admin has enacted.  The mms.cfg functionality is still applied, we just didn't have enough time in the current release to reflect that in the UI.  I believe our next release will address this, you should be able to verify by testing out our FP 11 RC release.

Chris

[HockeyFan21]

Chirs,

Thank you for the information.  I was assuming that since the Settings Manager was ebableing the "Update" feature that it was overriding the mms.cfg file.  Thanks for the verification.

HockeyFan21

[pwillener]

In addition to Chris' comments, here is the Admin Guide that explains how to use a mms.cfg file: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player_admin_guide.html

The document says version 10.1, but the functionality is exactly the same in 10.3.

[HockeyFan21]

Millener,

Thanks for the Admin guide...it was very helpful! 

HockeyFan21