Flash Player Administration - upgrade users without admin privileges

Is this possible? How have you answered this painfully obvious problem in your enterprise?
We have a remote Sales Force which do not connect to our domain. I looked through the Admin Guide - I do not want to disable the auto-update. I want to make the auto-update work for users without admin privileges.

Currently, the user does need to be an admin account for an update to occur.  However, the good news is that this will change in 11.2.  Once 11.2 is installed on Windows (using an admin account), there won't need to be further user interaction for future updates.  Users on limited accounts will be updated silently, without admin interaction.
Chris

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