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How to extend the Adobe Flash Player EOL to prevent it from blocking flash beyond 12 January 2021

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With the fast approaching end of life for Adobe Flash Player, some organisations have been caught out with legacy apps that have yet to be decommissioned or migrated to HTML5, etc. Some of these apps may be business critical. Unless you take action by the 11th January 2021, this is what your users will see on 12th January 2021.

Flash Blocked

Don’t panic! We can temporality fix this and you can continue to use Adobe Flash Player if correctly configured in a locked down state using the mms.cfg file.

Update: As of July 2021 all monthly and cumulative updates contain the Adobe Flash Removal Package. Therefore, deploying it will remove Adobe Flash. So if you do have an urgent need to test or work on an old Adobe Flash app, don’t patch beyond June 2021. This is not advice I would normally provide, but helps you get to a point should you need to revisit and use an Adobe Flash app.

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Introducing the new AppDNA Platinum Edition and Goodbye and RIP to the Standalone Editions

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The Excitement:

Last June Citrix included a cut down licensed version of AppDNA as part of the XenDesktop 7 Platinum license. As excited as everyone was at the time, this license was so restrictive that you could only analyse applications using the SBC module. Back then I wrote an article titled “AppDNA is now included with XenDesktop 7 Platinum, or is it just a tease?“, which pointed out the limitations of this release. Clearly Citrix took my feedback seriously, as now they have included a full unrestricted license with XenApp or XenDesktop 7.5 Platinum. It is totally unlimited across all modules! How cool is that?

In the announcement they say that “The inclusion of all the AppDNA capabilities in Platinum editions helps IT address a variety of migration issues, including how to virtualize applications ahead of Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 end-of-life milestones.” It’s a funny marketing statement given that Windows XP will reach it’s end-of-life milestone 13 days after these new capabilities are released into the Platinum editions!

The Disappointment:

To make matters worse Citrix, in their infinite wisdom, have also decided to drop the standalone versions altogether. So as of 28th April you will no longer be able to purchase the Standard or Enterprise editions. This is so uncool! In fact the EOM (End Of Maintenance) for the version 7.1 and later standalone editions is 31st October 2015, and the EOL (End Of Life) is 31st October 2016. So there is no value in purchasing the product if its last sale date is a little more than a month away. 

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