I have been deploying the flash player to our workstations since version 9. We have a 2003 AD domain and XP SP3 workstations.
I know that it is recommended to use the flash uninstall program to remove flash when installing a new version but I haven’t taken the time to work on that type of scripting for any install. Any attempts to uninstall the previous versions of flash via group policy when deploying have never worked. I had the same experience with java 1.5 jres…they would never uninstall via policy.
I have had success so far with deploying the latest version to the workstations with a new policy while leaving the old policy applied until a few weeks have past when all the workstations have been updated.
I am in the process of deploying Flash Player 10.0.42.34 to replace Flash Player 10.0.32.18
My test deploy to my virtual XP test workstation worked with no problems. The flash test paged detected the newer version and the correct version was in add/remove programs.
I then did a test deploy to a production workstation and the software installed without errors (the group policy install went extremely fast so I knew something was wrong). No errors were reported in the workstation application log. However when you visited the flash test page no version of flash was detected. I also checked in add/remove programs and the program icon was the windows installer icon instead of the normal red flash box….this has been associated with other installation issues in the past.
I have tried this on 3 other production machines and experienced the same results. My virtual XP test workstation has only had version 10.0.32.18 on it so I am guessing that having had the older versions of 10 on the production workstations is causing the problem somehow.
I have had issues in the past, but nothing like this. Looks like I may have been owned by adobe on this one.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks