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HOW TO ENABLE FLASH PLAYER ON WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2

July 17, 2014 by Paulie 43 Comments

If you are trying to view web pages that contain flash content on Windows Server
2012 r2 then you may find that it does not work. You are then led to a page on
the Adobe website tells you that Flash player is already installed on Windows 8
and that you do not need to install it. This post explains how to enable Flash
Player on Windows Server 2012.

The page then goes on to provide instructions as to how to enable Flash, this
basically consists of:

* Ensuring that the flash player add-on is enabled.
* Checking that Active-X filtering is disabled.

You will probably find that these instructions do not work for you as flash
player is not listed in the Internet Explorer Add-ons.

HOW TO INSTALL FLASH PLAYER ON WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2

In order to install Flash Player on Windows Server 2012 you need to install the
Desktop Experience Feature. To do this, do the following:

* Go into server manager.
* Click add roles and features:
* Press next until you reach the “Features” page.
* Tick the box “Desktop Experience” which is hidden under the “User Interfaces
and Infrastructure” feature:
* You will then have to accept the installation of some other features to
support the installation of desktop experience
* The features are installed and the server is rebooted:

Or if you prefer, you can install with the simple but so effective Windows
Powershell command:

Install-WindowsFeature Desktop-Experience

The reason I wanted to have access to Flash Player on this particular server was
so that I could access the vSphere Web client, which uses flash. Hope this helps
someone.

If you are looking for instructions on how to Install Flash Player on Windows
Server 2016 – please follow this updated guide.

Filed Under: How To Tagged With: Windows Server 2012 r2

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COMMENTS

1. Brian Peasey says

January 27, 2015 at 8:36 pm

Thanks for sharing. Helped me out today 🙂

2. Karim says

March 18, 2015 at 7:49 pm

Yeah. That helped. A LOT. Thank-you for taking the time to make this page
and for giving such a simple walkthrough, whereas Microsoft wouldn’t
provide this info. Funny how they view Flash as a security concern and make
it hard to enable when so many commercial interfaces for enterprise
software require it.

3. Anshika Goyal says

June 1, 2015 at 12:16 pm

It really works. I was struggling with it for an hour and tried the steps
listed here and it works!!

4. Pandari ch says

June 12, 2015 at 9:45 am

Thank you so much for sharing..

5. SiliconBike says

June 26, 2015 at 1:08 pm

Thank you

6. Twalaj says

August 18, 2015 at 9:50 am

Thanks for the post. Saved me a lot time.

7. ryman says

September 1, 2015 at 10:44 am

Thank you

8. Fred says

September 3, 2015 at 10:45 pm

Cheers Bud

9. Larry Livingston says

September 14, 2015 at 6:50 pm

There is a better, faster way. That doesn’t require a reboot. Install
another browser (chrome, or firefox)

10. Greatful Dharma says

October 9, 2015 at 6:51 pm

THANK YOU FOR SHARING.
I wished i found your website first

11. Confused IT Guy says

October 14, 2015 at 4:02 pm

Thank you so much. I had the same problem, could not access vsphere web
client because of flash. This is what I needed.

12. Enrique Garcia says

January 19, 2016 at 1:53 am

Also, after you do the reboot, if it’s still not working for you, make sure
you don’t have ActiveX filtering turned ON. It’s in IE under Tools >
ActiveX Filtering

13. Jay Steel says

February 25, 2016 at 12:03 pm

Much appreciated, also needed this for vSphere

14. WALTA says

February 25, 2016 at 9:52 pm

THIS HELPED ME VERY MUCH THANK YOU

15. KinG says

March 27, 2016 at 10:56 am

Fab. I searched the whole internet and finally found this useful article.
Kudos to you. Me too want to access vSphere Web client using IE

16. mahfoud says

March 28, 2016 at 2:20 am

Thank you for your help

17. Leonel says

April 20, 2016 at 3:36 pm

Thanks a lot. Very helpful.

18. Tim Ross says

June 1, 2016 at 7:20 pm

Great job on the post. Effective, short, and to the point. Thanks.

19. Joe Faradeh says

June 7, 2016 at 3:12 pm

I just wanted to thank you for the very good information you provided. On
server it always said to just enable but that never worked. Which means it
was misleading. Thanks for your incredibly helpful instructions!

20. Jack Samson says

July 17, 2016 at 6:10 pm

Thank you

21. Marcos says

July 20, 2016 at 2:40 pm

Already have Desktop Experienced feature and still unable to use flash.

22. Ercole Lugari says

July 22, 2016 at 2:51 pm

Thanks very much! You are the men! it took me half day to fix this

23. Zinzi Nokhemane says

November 15, 2016 at 8:01 am

I am having issues installing the feature , it keeps failing . want to
install it on Windows 2012 R box, help please

24. Ryan says

December 11, 2016 at 2:40 am

2 and a half later and this still helped me. Thanks muh dood.

25. Prakash says

December 19, 2016 at 4:23 pm

Thanks, It helped a lot I was struggling from one hour to get the flash
player installed.

26. Anonymouse says

March 8, 2017 at 11:40 pm

Hey man, thanks for that! Had me stumped for a little while but handy to
know! I had to do the same thing, install Flash on a Management Jump Host
to access VMware Web Client.

27. kuroshitsuji.org says

March 30, 2017 at 6:20 pm

Click Refresh to reload the webpage. If you see the animation playing this
time, then Flash Player has been successfully enabled.

28. Mustapha Amlal says

May 2, 2017 at 1:48 pm

Thank you for your help.

29. Mustapha Amlal says

May 2, 2017 at 1:49 pm

Thank you for the solution. Regards

30. Deepu says

May 18, 2017 at 9:05 pm

Thank you

31. itchy says

May 24, 2017 at 7:37 pm

thx

32. Hieu Nghia says

June 22, 2017 at 4:29 am

Thank you very much.

33. Glenn says

October 16, 2017 at 2:19 pm

Enable flash on windows server 2016

dism /online /add-package
/packagepath:”C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Adobe-Flash-For-Windows-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.14393.0.mum”

Enable flash on windows server 2012r2

dism /online /add-package
/packagepath:”C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Adobe-Flash-For-Windows-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.3.9600.16384.mum”

34. Federico says

October 18, 2017 at 3:38 pm

Thank you so much, you save me a lot of time!!

35. Rick says

October 21, 2017 at 1:44 pm

Thanks for this!

36. ledba says

January 2, 2018 at 1:39 pm

Works fine, thanks a lot

37. Anonymous says

March 2, 2018 at 4:17 pm

Great!

38. Jonas says

July 26, 2018 at 4:31 pm

Same reason for me!
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/getting-started-with-server-with-desktop-experience

39. aj says

September 20, 2019 at 4:01 am

Thank you very much. Really help.

40. Mahen says

October 15, 2019 at 7:06 pm

The Article still worth it.. resolved my issue following it.

Thanks a lot!!

41. Dinesh says

December 10, 2019 at 6:20 am

thank it helps a lot.

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