Turn Off Auto Update in the Sun Java Runtime
Created: 25 Aug 2009 | 3 comments
The following changes should be made via an existing transform - eg: sp1033.mst for English installs.
Step 1 - Create a custom action in the CustomAction Table
Action: PolicyFix
Type: 3110
Source: (leave empty)
Target: Set S = CreateObject("WScript.Shell"):X="HKLM\Software\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy\":Y="REG_DWORD":S.RegWrite x&"EnableJavaUpdate",0,Y:S.RegWrite x&"EnableAutoUpdateCheck",0,Y:S.RegWrite x&"NotifyDownload",0,Y:S.RegWrite x&"NotifyInstall",0,Y:S.RegWrite x&"Frequency",0,Y:S.RegWrite x&"UpdateSchedule",0,Y
Step 2: - Add a custom action to the InstallExecute Sequence:
Action: PolicyFix
Condition: NOT Installed
Sequence - Just before InstallFinalize - eg: Sequence: 3183
Step 3: In the Property Table, ensure the following properties have the stated values:
| AUTOUPDATECHECK | 0 |
| IEXPLORER | 1 |
| JAVAUPDATE | 0 |
| JU | 0 |
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With 6u20 you could run:
msiexec /x {4A03706F-666A-4037-7777-5F2748764D10} /q
which would uninstall the seperate Auto updater but this seems to have been removed now.
Auto update appears to be the default, going into the Java applet in Control Panel > Advanced tab > JRE Auto download and selecting "Never Auto-Download" adds this line to Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties:
deployment.javaws.autodownload=NEVER
but I'm not sure how you could do this for all users.
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with help from a post from Spartacus on AppDeploy.
Create two files, deployment.config:
This can be a URL on a common server for enterprise wide settings. Create the deployment.properties file:
The "locked" line means that users can't override the setting in their own profiles.
Put these two files in a Sun\Java\Deployment subfolder of your WIndows Directory.
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I assume you mean the Windows directory on the workstation with Java installed, and not the common server.
It would be quite trivial to create these files using a bit of vbscript in a transform, to avoid having to deploy actual files.
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