Flash Player 8 global security settings

I'm having some trouble with the global security settings in
Flash Player 8. I have deployed the player successfully using GPO,
but now have a piece of software (Nelson Thornes) that requires
content from c:\program files\nelson thornes to be allowed in order
to run. Manually enabling this using the settings manager works a
treat, however it only changes it for the current user and I can't
find any way of setting it per station so that I can package it up
and deploy it. I can't expect all of my users to do this
themselves.
Please tell me there's a way of doing this?!?!

AndiMorris wrote:
> I'm having some trouble with the global security
settings in Flash Player 8. I
> have deployed the player successfully using GPO, but now
have a piece of
> software (Nelson Thornes) that requires content from
c:\program files\nelson
> thornes to be allowed in order to run. Manually enabling
this using the
> settings manager works a treat, however it only changes
it for the current user
> and I can't find any way of setting it per station so
that I can package it up
> and deploy it. I can't expect all of my users to do this
themselves.
There is an MMS.cfg file that you can deploy that will allow
you to
control this site wide without individual user interaction
(overriding
settings manager).
Start learning here:
" IT Administration: Configuring Flash Player auto-update
notification"
http://www.adobe.com/go/16701594
Bentley Wolfe
Senior Support Engineer, Flash/Flash Player
Adobe

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