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- Adobe Acrobat/Reader
- Adobe Flash
- Both IE (ActiveX) and FireFox
- FireFox (Help > About Firefox). 31.1.1 0 ESR (as of 91/258/1415)
- Symantec SEP: Upgrade (not update definitions!) to 12.1.4xxx (as of 3/5/14)
- Do using ChemIT's "files" file server.
- BIOS update
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Log out of user account and into Admin account
Run Windows Update (enter "update" in Run command, for example). Pull in just Important Updates, not Optional Updates.
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If iTunes, QuickTime, or other Apple software installed, run Apple Software Update. Pull in just Updates, not New Software.
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Only if computer not managed using ChemIT's infrastructure (how detect?), and for newly installed imaged machine:
Run Windows Update (enter "update" in Run command, for example). Pull in just Important Updates, not Optional Updates.
- In Windows, this covers MS Office software updates and IE, too.
Oracle Java
(Remove, if possible. See above.)
ChemIT updates Java, if installed and managed by ChemIT (how detect?). Thus, not need to manually update this software.
If Windows machine not managed by ChemIT (how detect?):
- Go to Java.com. Press Free Java download. Click on "See all Java downloads." (Not the "Agree and Start Free Download" button!)
- Select Windows Offline (32-bit). You may also need Windows Offline (64-bit).
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Tip: Current Versions of Flash will auto-update; check File Hippo before manually updating. (Oliver found this NOT to be true for version upgrades, 1/8/15.)
Tip: Do these updates within FF and for ActiceX won't have . Otherwise, if using IE, ActiveX's version will require you to quit IE's browser.
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Adobe's idea of facilitating the deployment of installs and updates within an org. is licensing and local hosting if not using SCCM?! (As of fall 2014, at least.) See:
http://www.adobe.com/products/players/flash-player-distribution.html
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