Skype for Business Server and Flash Player (Desktop Experience)
If you do not want to inadvertently add Adobe Flash to your Skype for Business Server 2015 installation, a desktop application that serves no real purpose on your SERVER operating system (other than making it vulnerable from a security perspective), a review of my previous post* is in order.
This is important as various blog postings, including Microsoft’s #skype4b documentation on TechNet Library (link), continue to make the same (old) suggestion to install this “side application” as part of the prerequisites as of today.
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In the pre Windows Server 2012 (R2) days, the “Windows Media Format Runtime” feature is an integral part of the Desktop-Experience feature. On the PowerShell command line, you should now replace the latter with Server-Media-Foundation instead to avoid installing the unneeded Flash component altogether i.e.
Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework-Core,NET-WCF-HTTP-Activation45,RSAT-ADDS, Server-Media-Foundation, Web-Asp-Net,Web-Asp-Net45,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Client-Auth,Web-Default-Doc,Web-Dyn-Compression,Web-Filtering,Web-Http-Errors,Web-Http-Logging,Web-Http-Tracing,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-ISAPI-Filter,Web-Log-Libraries,Web-Mgmt-Tools,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Request-Monitor,Web-Scripting-Tools,Web-Stat-Compression,Web-Static-Content,Web-Windows-Auth,Windows-Identity-Foundation -Source D:\sources\SxS
*Original post (old blog before migration):
http://www.leedesmond.com/weblog/?p=998
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