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You can update Flash Player and Adobe Reader via Windows Updates using SCUP through WSUS/SCCM. Download SCUP: Download System Center Update Publisher Here Then once installed and configured on your server, you can connect to the Adobe catalogs for Reader and Flash Player and publish them to WSUS/SCCM to be pushed out via windows updates. […]
If you are looking at pushing out or just updating Adobe Flash Player via SCCM – follow this procedure. First download the latest version of flash player – usually filehippo.com is your best bet for this, but Google it and you’ll find the full download easily enough rather than the online install at adobe.com. You […]
If you are looking for a good MSI packager to create MSI’s for deployment using SCCM – I recommend EMCO – you can get it for free and works a treat. Link below: EMCO Software Free Subscription If you want to be notified when we post more quality guides like this one, sign up to […]
Today I cracked Windows XP OSD, turns out various problems I had with it in the past were down to the AHCI and Co-Processor settings. If you wish to see a full guide on how to sysprep and capture a Windows XP image, click the link below: Windows XP Sysprep Guide Free Subscription If you […]
This is another fairly simple one – again no need to create a package, just a Program command line, this assumes that your clients have installed WinRAR to the standard default location – this can be changed if required… Then just push this out to a collection. My personal preference is to create a collection […]
The best way to ensure Google Earth gets removes is to collect the Google Earth.msi file that is put into the %temp% directory when installed – but you have to make sure that you use the correct version for the version installed. So, create a report in SCCM for all Google Earth installs with file […]
This one is fairly simple but did take a while to figure out and lots of testing, also be very careful – if you make it a forced out install, it WILL automatically restart your client machine WITHOUT WARNING!!! Package up your software and run the following Program command line: This will complete a silent […]
In case you are using SharePoint 2010 and wondering why you are having problems opening PDF documents from it – it may be that you or a client has Adobe Acrobat Reader X installed. For some unknown reason (to me anyway…) if you have X installed, you cannot open embedded PDF documents from the web…. So, get […]
To distribute Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.4.0 via SCCM, you need to first download the exe file, package it up in SCCM and then run the below command as your program: This is for version 9.4.0 but should work on all versions of Adobe Reader. But if you are using Adobe Reader X or XI now, […]
Package up Filemaker 11 Pro Install and run this command as your Program to distribute a silent and unattended install: Free Subscription If you want to be notified when we post more quality guides like this one, sign up to our free subscription service and you will receive an email when a new post is […]
Hello all and welcome to my new SCCM blog. I’ve been working with SCCM 2007 for just coming up to a year now and I’ve learnt from scratch with only Google for help! I’ve done a few complete installs and setup all the standard parts of SCCM mainly using up to this point remote tools, […]
