I don’t want to sidetrack this thread, but this is something that really just drives me nuts. I understand Adobe patches as soon as they can and I appreciate that, even if they take WAY too long to do so. But it’s very difficult to keep all of your computers up to date and patched when it requires admin rights in order to run the update.
In the schools that I manage, I don’t allow my users to have admin rights, in fact, they pretty much don’t have any rights at all, they can barely even open the task manager.
So when I have to go around the school and update adobe on every computer in the lab, the student classrooms, and the teacher computers, I just curse adobe’s name. Same goes for iTunes/Quicktime, same goes for shockwave (which asks for admin rights at least, so that’s nice), same for Java.
I really wish they’d let standard users update the software somehow, or ask for permission when the install starts instead of just erroring out and quitting. Why can’t MS integrate third-party updates in WSUS!!!
Nope, can’t do that, you just have to spend $4k on shavlik or something. Ridiculous.
/rant.