Comments on: Sun JRE Install Script Update

By: stealthpuppy / Juggling Sun Java Runtimes in App-V

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By: Paul Mras

Paul Mras — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:33:30 +0000

Hi,

We’re using your script but ran into a problem in that we can’t seem to open the Sun Java Console from IE v7.0.5730.13 now.

From a command prompt you can run ‘java -version’ on this same machine and get a response of “1.6.0_07″

This current state of affairs breaks an application we use called SSL Explorer. More on that here: http://3sp.com

Please advise

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:22:11 +0000

Thanks Mike, time for another update top the script..

By: Mike Dolan

Mike Dolan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:14:42 +0000

Just thought you should be aware that disabling the automatic update via HKLM\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy stopped working a long time ago.

If you search Suns knowledge base you will see a lot of complaints from enterprise users.

To disable autoupdate, you now need to either delete the startup link from the registy:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
“SunJavaUpdateSched”=-

or modify the deployment.properties file.

Otherwise, excellent blog – keep it up!

Cheers,
Mike