How to remotely enable the auto update option for Flash on Windows 7

[CapSpecMike]

About 2/3rds of our company is currently auto-updating Flash Player successfully.  It appears the rest of the Flash installs are configured to Notify when updates are available - and users aren't updating.  Where is the setting stored on a Windows 7 workstation to Allow Adobe to install updates?  Is there a way to configure this remotely (i.e. a registry setting or config file that can be copied to the workstation)?   I haven't been able to find what change is made to the workstation when the Control Panel Update option is changed in the Flash Player applet.  Thanks in advance.

[_maria_ · Accepted solution]

Hi capspecmike,

This setting is configured in the mms.cfg file.  The Flash Player Admin Guide contains information on this topic.

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Maria

[CapSpecMike]

Perfect!  That's the info I was looking for. Thank You!

One odd thing I noticed, though.  When I copied a new mms.cfg file to one of the workstations that wasn't auto-updating, and then logged on the workstation and ran the Control Panel Flash player utility, on the Update tab, the option to Allow Adobe to install updates was set, but the button to change the settings had disappeared.  In any case, the Flash software updated after the next time the scheduled task ran.

Mike