Force Adobe Shockwave updates to install as a restricted user:

Question

For security purposes I'm investigating what it would take to force Adobe Shockwave Player updates to run under a restricted user account in a corporate environment. I was hoping for a solution similar to Adobe Flash where you could create a scheduled task to run the update as the SYSTEM account but shockwave seems to behave a little differently than Flash.
I've also read that you can enable/disable auto updates by modifying the registry keys "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Macromedia\Shockwave 10\AutoUpdate" and "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Shockwave 12\AutoUpdate", however, when I modify these parameters they are not reflected when you right click on the shockwave video player -> select properties -> and then check/uncheck the update options. Am I missing something here?
I have been testing with a somewhat older version of Shockwave to see if it would ever update to the newest version but I can't see where it ever updates. Have others run into this issue? How do you keep shockwave up to date in your corporate environment?

Answer 1

You might want to look at implementing Munki. Munki is mainly intended as a means of distributing both initial Application installs, but also updates for those applications, e.g. Microsoft Office. It can however also automate installing Apple Software Updates. Importantly it does not require the end user to ever enter any administrator details to allow these updates to be installed.
See https://code.google.com/p/munki/wiki/AppleSoftwareUpdatesWithMunki
(Munki is free.)