Flash Player SCUP Catalog Download Link Broken?

[hammondjx]

I am working on monthly patching for my environment today and noticed the SCUP download catalog for Adobe Flash Player no longer seems to work.

The Reader/Acrobat's are working fine.

http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/licensing/win/AdobeFlashPlayerCatalog_SCUP.cab

Is this a known issue? Is there a new url we should be using for this catalog?

Thanks!

[_maria_ · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The link was updated. Please see Adobe - Player Licensing : Distribution Strategies  or chapter 3 of the Flash Player Administrator Guide.

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Maria

[hammondjx]

Thank you very much for the quick response!

[_maria_]

You're welcome.

[christiang54200753]

Hello.

I tried the "new" SCUP catalog link suggested. It does indeed import the Flashplayer ActiveX 24.0.0.194 update into SCUP.

There are 2 things I'd like to mention.

1st.

The installable rules in the catalog XML file seem to be wrong.  The "Is Installable" rules say to install it if {22AF9D99-A980-4071-A0BD-1D0BB956B9EA} is not an installed MSI product.  So on any machine including Windows 10, it's going to try to install no matter what.

The "Is Installable" rules from the previous versions excluded Windows 8 and 10 OS since there is a Microsoft version".  The previous 24.0.0.186 and earlier rules have it trying to install ONLY if there is already a Flashplayer ActiveX install on the computer.  The rules supplied for 24.0.0.194 are going to install it even if the computer doesn't have it already.  We are not going to be able to deploy it using the import from the new link since it's going to try to install on Windows 10 and fail. It will also install on Windows 7 computers which do not have any Flashplayer installed whereas the previous behavior was to only upgrade computers with existing Flashplayer installs.

Is Adobe going to fix the "Installed" and "Is Installable Rules" for the 24.0.0.194 ActiveX SCUP install?

2nd.

The new link didn't supply the Plugin and PPAPI versons of Flashplayer 24.0.0.194.  It only imported the ActiveX version.  The previous link we were using would import all 3 into SCUP.

Thank you.

Chris G.

24.0.0.194 SCUP IsInstallable Rule Excerpt

        <sdp:IsInstalled>

          <msiar:MsiProductInstalled ProductCode="{22AF9D99-A980-4071-A0BD-1D0BB956B9EA}" />

        </sdp:IsInstalled>

        <sdp:IsInstallable>

          <lar:Not>

            <msiar:MsiProductInstalled ProductCode="{22AF9D99-A980-4071-A0BD-1D0BB956B9EA}" />

          </lar:Not>

        </sdp:IsInstallable>

24.0.0.186 SCUP IsInstallable Rule Excerpt

      <sdp:IsInstalled>

        <lar:And xmlns:lar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wsus/2005/04/CorporatePublishing/LogicalApplicabilityRules.xsd">

          <bar:RegDword Key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" Subkey="Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayer\SafeVersions" Value="24.0" RegType32="true" Comparison="GreaterThanOrEqualTo" Data="186" xmlns:bar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wsus/2005/04/CorporatePublishing/BaseApplicabilityRules.xsd" />

          <bar:RegKeyExists Key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" Subkey="Software\Classes\CLSID\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}" RegType32="true" xmlns:bar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wsus/2005/04/CorporatePublishing/BaseApplicabilityRules.xsd" />

        </lar:And>

      </sdp:IsInstalled>

      <sdp:IsInstallable>

        <lar:And xmlns:lar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wsus/2005/04/CorporatePublishing/LogicalApplicabilityRules.xsd">

          <bar:RegKeyExists Key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" Subkey="Software\Classes\CLSID\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}" RegType32="true" xmlns:bar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wsus/2005/04/CorporatePublishing/BaseApplicabilityRules.xsd" />

          <lar:Not>

            <bar:RegDword Key="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" Subkey="Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayer\SafeVersions" Value="24.0" RegType32="true" Comparison="GreaterThanOrEqualTo" Data="186" xmlns:bar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wsus/2005/04/CorporatePublishing/BaseApplicabilityRules.xsd" />

          </lar:Not>

          <bar:WindowsVersion Comparison="GreaterThanOrEqualTo" MajorVersion="5" MinorVersion="0" ServicePackMajor="0" ServicePackMinor="0" xmlns:bar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wsus/2005/04/CorporatePublishing/BaseApplicabilityRules.xsd" />

          <bar:WindowsVersion Comparison="LessThan" MajorVersion="6" MinorVersion="2" ServicePackMajor="0" ServicePackMinor="0" xmlns:bar="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wsus/2005/04/CorporatePublishing/BaseApplicabilityRules.xsd" />

        </lar:And>

      </sdp:IsInstallable>

[_maria_]

christiang54200753

Thank you for your report.  We'll investigate further.

[christiang54200753]

I figured it out.

I was using the 2nd link provided on the Distribution Strategies link provided above.

The first link listed looked llke the old link but is different link.

Thanks.

Old

http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/distribution/current/licensing/win/AdobeFlashPlayerCatal...

Incorrect

https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/distribution/win/AdobeFlashPlayerCatalog.cab

Correct

http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/distribution/win/AdobeFlashPlayerCatalog_SCUP.cab

[_maria_]

Thank you for the update.

AdobeFlashPlayerCatalog.cab is for use with Microsoft System Management Server and only supports Flash Player ActiveX.

AdobeFlashPlayerCatalog_SCUP.cab is for use with Microsoft System Center Updates Publisher and supports Flash Player ActiveX, NPAPI, and PPAPI. 

Regardless of which catalog is used, Flash Player ActiveX will not install on windows 8 and above.

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Maria

[Parc Analyse TI]

The link is now broken again for SCCM. The certificate is expired since 19 march 2019. Now, all my computer are failing because of these updates...

[_maria_]

@Parc STM

The issue you are facing is not related to the topic of this discussion.  I see your post at Flash Player Update Catalog - Expired Certificate, can't use it anymore and will reply there.

Locking this discussion topic.