Software Deployment

So what exactly is your question? If it's just about Adobe AIR, have you checked out the KB article on this site? http://itninja.com/link/updated-autodesk-object-enablers-&-service-packs5

Hi Lucid, thanks for the reply, sorry if it was vague.
The EULA gets accepted at install time with the .exe and a silent switch (as documented) so it is installed fine.
However when the user triggers a help file in (in this case) Photoshop which is using adobe air to present the help file the user is presented with a AIR EULA to accept. I want to stop a user seeing this.

If I remember correctly Air creates a file in appdata which dictates if the EULA is prompted at lauch. Can't remember if this is a just a text file exist process, or a setting in a xml or something, take a look before and after first run. Since this is a per user file, eula will prompt for first run for each new user so you will have to find a solution to repair for each new user. This could be an advertised MIME entry point (sorry haven't had to do this yet) or use activesetup to run repair for each new user.

The eulaaccepted switch could be just during install, and not during run. You can find out by downloading sample air app.

You can test behavior as I said earlier by looking in appdata or local/appdata after install but before first use. After launch and accept prompt look again for the file. Copy file and do another clean install and copy file to same location and run Air again... Obviously goal is to get it NOT to come up.

Cheers, I will blast regshot over it and see if I can spot it. It is just pretty sh*t of Adobe to force this AIR crap onto you (typical of a monopoly).

Well amazing... I am working on the upgrade for this, my ex-co-worker worked on the previous version.

Working with the distributable version (which I assume is the exact same as normal downloadable... Signed up with Adobe blah blah blah

I prefer to use msi out-right so extracted the msi and files from exe.

%appdata%\Adobe\AIR contains a files called eulaAccepted (no ext) the file only contains the # "2"

I thought this would be a good time to try and create an advertised entry point for self-heal using associations, but found after an install it would be impossible. Probably could do it for .air which is generally used when installing an air application. In our case though we deploy some our air apps via custom msi (an I am not going to reinvent the wheel at this point) so the air installer is skipped entirely.

Also disabling the EULA is PROHIBITED by the adobe redistribution license, actually virtually any modification except disabling updates in an intranet is prohibited. So if this license compliance in this grey area is even remotely an issue I would not do it.

To modifiy auto-update.. place a file called "UpdateDisabled" in same dir as above. OR you can add a reg key DWORD value named UpdateDisabled to the HKey_Local_Machine\Software\Policies\Adobe\AIR registry key, and set the value to 1.

....disabling the EULA is PROHIBITED... Adobe are such a lovely bunch aren't they (rhymes with bankers), anyhow it is not being disabled, just pre-accepted ahead of time. I found the eula file worked (didn't have any values just a blank file); however the only way of disabling the update was to use the reg key.