I wonder if it was possible to deploy a silent install of:
Adobe Flash Player ActiveX 25.0.0.171
Adobe Flash Player NPAPI 25.0.0.171
And code that it needs to wait for Chrome.exe and Firefox.exe to be closed before resuming the silent installation.
I don’t want any pop-ups for the user to be asked to close these applications.
Nor do I want the PSAppDeployToolkit to force close these applications/processes.
I don’t know what this has to do with what OS this is happening on.
I deployed these applications to a device collection of Windows 7 desktops which don’t have the latest version of the ActiveX and NPAPI Plugin installed.
I’m aware that since Windows 8 Flash is part of the OS. (ActiveX)
I just need to built-in a check that delays the installation - it has to wait on the dependent processes to be closed by the user him/herself before installing the application.
Also I don’t want a message to be displayed to the user to instruct him/her to close these dependent applications/processes before Installation can continue.
“I just need to built-in a check that delays the installation – it has to wait on the dependent processes to be closed by the user him/herself before installing the application.
Also I don’t want a message to be displayed to the user to instruct him/her to close these dependent applications/processes before Installation can continue.”
Then you need to check if someone is log on an interactive session first --> This informations is already available in PSADTK
If someone is logged on run a get-process and find if your process is existing, if not then go!
But what about if the user remain login 3 weeks with Chrome open? Also with SCCM no other deployment will be occurring… You should popup Something to the user or just close Chrome and go!
thanks for this response, I didn’t know that if this deployment is occuring no other deployment can start.
What you say that a user remains logged in 3 weeks in a row with the Chrome process open is not unusual but highly exceptional.
I hoped there was some Example of this Use-Case available or maybe someone had already done this before.
I’m glad with your information so I can try it out.
For now I really don’t want to annoy our end-users with pop-ups, but in the near future this is going to be necessary - and that should be communicated first through intranet portal website first.