Flash Player - Terminal Server/Remote Desktop

Question

I am running Windows Server 2003. When I login directly as
administrator, I can install Flash Player from the Adobe website.
Then when I login via Remote Desktop as administrator, Flash Player
is detected and works in IE. However, when I login via Remote
Desktop as a regular user, Flash Player is not detected. I believe
the problem is that I have to install Flash Player from the Control
Panel->Add/Remote Program. To do this, I need a setup.exe file
for Flash Player. Do you know where I can one? Thanks in
advance.

Answer 1

Well I had the same issues and spent 3 days looking on the internet for solutions and trying many of them and nothing worked by itself. But when I took 3 of the solutions and mixed them together it work like a charm. Below is what I did to get my terminal server users able to use flash.
1.       Logon to the server as the local administrator or with an account with admin rights that does not map a home folder like H:. if your home folder is mapped it the installer will think windows directory is h:\windows instead of c:\windows. I used the local administrator account.
2.       Download the Adobe flash uninstaller from here http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html
3.       Put it in a folder like c:\temp on the terminal server
4.       Open a command prompt and go the folder you saved the uninstall_flash_player.exe in
5.       At the prompt type uninstall_flash_player.exe /clean
6.       Click the Details button. If it lists any files as "Delete on reboot", then reboot now. Otherwise, just carry on.
7.       Download the latest Flash Player (10 in this instance) as a standalone version and save it to the hard drive/ network share. Get the standalone version 10 from here: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/licensing/win/install_flash_playe r_10_active_x.exe
8.       Use the Control Panel Add/Remove programs method to install it. This ensures that the Windows install notification API triggers correctly (as opposed to executing change user /install in a command prompt).
9.       Use regedit and find the following 3 keys and do the same for all 3 keys: right click the key select permissions, select everyone and remove before clicking apply select the Advanced button and click the Replace permissions on all child objects, click Ok then Yes on the security window then Apply. Now Add everyone and click on Read then Advance button and click the Replace permissions on all child objects, click Ok then Yes on the security window then Ok. Now repeat on the next 2 keys. (By clicking Read then Advanced it selects a few other permissions so please do it this way)
a.       HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}
b.      HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D27CDB70-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}
c.       HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{D27CDB6B-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}
10.   I then logged off and logged on as a standard user and went to a site needing Flash and it worked.
11.   I then had some users try it without even logging out and it work for them.
This is what worked for me on all 3 of the 2003 Terminal Servers with IE7 needing Flash 10.
I hope this might help someone else as this has driven me up a wall…
Russ