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I'm being driven slowly mad by trying to deploy Java 1.8 Update 74 x86 and turn off the prompts that say it's out of date.  There are so many conflicting articles online and on here - probably because Oracle keep moving the goalposts as to what works.  For example, the MSI you can get out of your Local AppData folder is not supported for enterprise install.  It also seems they keep removing supported parameter names from the deployment.properties.  And there are no end of articles with vastly differing syntaxes listed for the paths of the two file parameters I'm using.

Here's what I'm currently doing:

1. Copy the following java.settings.cfg to c:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\

INSTALL_SILENT=Enable
STATIC=Disable
AUTO_UPDATE=Disable
WEB_JAVA=Enable
WEB_ANALYTICS=Disable
EULA=Disable
REBOOT=Disable
NOSTARTMENU=Enable
SPONSORS=Disable
REMOVEOUTOFDATEJRES=Enable

2. Copy deployment.config to c:\Windows\Sun\Java\Deployment\

deployment.system.config=file\:C\:/WINDOWS/Sun/Java/Deployment/deployment.properties

3. Copy deployment.properties to c:\Windows\Sun\Java\Deployment\

deployment.expiration.check.enabled=FALSE
deployment.expiration.check.enabled.locked
deployment.insecure.jres=NEVER
deployment.insecure.jres.locked
deployment.webjava.enabled=TRUE
install.disable.sponsor.offers=TRUE
install.disable.sponsor.offers.locked
deployment.user.security.exception.sites=C\:/Windows/Sun/Java/Deployment/exception.sites
deployment.security.jsse.hostmismatch.warning=FALSE

4. Install Java from the offline exe

start /wait "" "Java v1.80 Update 74.exe" INSTALLCFG=c:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\java.settings.cfg

My deployment.properties is definitely applying, because if I alter the sponsor offers line, I can see the result updated in the Control Panel applet.

What am I doing wrong?  Is it perhaps that with this version of Java, the "out of date" message can no longer be suppressed?

I'd be very grateful to hear from anyone who successfully remotely deploys Java 1.8 >=74!  Thanks!