Deploy Adobe Flash Player Updates with SCUP 4.5

Deploy Adobe Flash Player Updates with SCUP 4.5

When deploying Adobe Flash Player updates with SCUP 4.5 you might run into a few problems with the installation of the update. My work around to fix that is by creating the update from scratch. In this post I assume that you have a working SCUP 4.5 environment up and running. The update being deployed is install_flash_player_ax.exe version 10.0.32.18 which can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/downloads.html

Open SCUP and select Create Update
Type: Update Title: Adobe Flash Player 10 10.0.32.18 Describtion: Something nice Classification: Critical Update Bulletin ID: APBB09-10 Vendor: Adobe Systems, Inc. Product: Adobe Flash Player 10 Click Next
Type: Article ID: APSB09-10 CVE ID: CVE-2009-1862, CVE-2009-0901, CVE-2009-2 Severity: Critical Support URL: http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/ More Info URL: http://www.adobe.com/go/apsb09-10 Impact: Normal Reboot Behavior: Never Reboots Click Next
Click Next Creating a preequisites rule is not needed. But it can be very beneficial to define the Operating systems and versions you wish to update.
In Installer type select Command line installation (.Exe) In Update Package Source: Browse to the network location where you have the file. Just copy the entire UNC including the file name. In Download URL: Copy the location from the package source Binary Language: English Success Code: 0 Success Pending Reboot Code: 3010 Command line: /s Click Next
In DefineApplicability rules click the yellow plus sign to create a new rule. Rule type: Registry version in Sz Registry Path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Adobe Flash Player ActiveX Registry value: Displayversion Use 32 bit Registry True Comparison: Less than Version 10.0.32.18 Click OK when the rule is created and Click Next
In Define Installed rules click the yellow plus sign to create a new rule. Rule type: Registry version in Sz Registry Path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Adobe Flash Player ActiveX Registry value: Displayversion Use 32 bit Registry True Comparison:  Equal to  Version 10.0.32.18 Click OK when the rule is created and Click Next
Click Next and Close
The update is now created in SCUP and needs to be published. Right click the update and select Set Publish Flag, Full Content
In the Actions Pane select Publish Update(s).
Click Next
Click Close
The update will automatically be replicated to Config Mgr. in the next WSUS Sync schedule. You can force the sync process in the Config Mgr. console. Navigate to Computer Management, Software Updates. Right click Software Reporsitory and click Run Synchronization
You can monitor the sync process in the wsyncmgr.log file on the site server.
The update is now in Config Mgr. and ready to be deployed like any other Windows Update.
On the client (if you have visible deployments) it should like this	jaj